A needle bearing headset seems to help with shimmy but isn't a cure all. I experienced a violent shimmy even with this headset. I was riding downhill and hit a patch of sand on the asphalt. It was a OMG, I sure I'm gonna wreck, experience.
I was lucky and rode out the shimmy. Afterwards I stopped to compose myself and to check the bike out.I was sure something was seriously wrong, but couldn't find anything. While it was happening I thought for sure a tire had blown out, but my tire pressure seemed fine. I tightened the headset a little, counted my blessings, and rode home. The bike I was riding has standard diameter, thin-walled tubing and is optimized for carrying a load up front. My Acorn Boxy Rando bag was carrying about 6lb. I haven't experienced front end shimmy since. Hope I never do. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
