> > I was troubled by severe shimmy on my old Atlantis. I had a Nitto small > front rack with a Tubus low rider. No matter how I changed the weight, it > persisted. I bought a Nitto big front rack from Riv and the shimmy > disappeared. For years I resisted the voices that said to load the front. > Once I did, no prob. I have a theory that the Tubus front rack and others > of the ilk, are too flexible laterally (not the rears, they are > triangulated). Between the fork and rack oscillation dance, wibblewobbles > raise their heads and make one nervous. The load yaws on the flexible rack, > twisting the fork a bit, which hits the right oscillation frequency > and.....
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