Decrease HTA on MTB and Shorter Stem. Trek Fuel EX. Ditch Knock Block!

Decrease HTA on MTB and Shorter Stem. Trek Fuel EX. Ditch Knock Block!
My 2018 Trek Fuel EX 9.8 is an amazing trail bike! It fits my riding style and looks sweet! My only issues have been it’s relatively modest geometry and super-low bottom bracket height. I wanted to run this in the low Mino Link position to slack the head tube angle a bit but can’t due to constant pedal strikes on technical climbs and even fast trails where I want to pedal through mild turns to keep speed.

Today, I’m adding a Reverse Components .5 degree head tube angle spacer and attempting to get rid of the knock block in the process. Unfortunately this did not work and I had to resort to using a knock block adapter to swap to a shorter, non-Bontrager stem. This worked great.

In the end I slacked the front 1/2 degree and slightly raised the BB 1/8 inch (3 mm).
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