At the risk of being a smartass, I was wondering that too. :) Maybe, David, your AR would work better except that those pesky M-bars won't allow you to have the Wald basket. I have a funny feeling that a Sam or a Hunq or an Atlantis would shimmy less when loaded this way. Jan and others have commented that some of the needle bearing headsets can mitigate shimmy. But I remember in the late eighties when I toured loaded I used front panniers on low-riders as well as rear panniers with my tent and sleeping bag lashed to the top of a Blackburn rack with Coughlin straps (look a lot like the Irish straps Riv sells). Bikes I rode were my PX-10 (not ideal gearing and I did have shimmy due to loosening headset and a 531 frame and later a Cannondale T something - which really handled well loaded. But back then the conventional wisdom was to load low and balanced On Friday, May 29, 2015 at 10:34:05 AM UTC-5, Brian Campbell wrote:
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