Patrick Is the "Soma radonneur" you refer to wrt Steve, the Grand Radonneur?? If so, it has low trial (29 mm) while the Rivs have probably 55 to 65 mm of trail. On the Soma GR, 70%of the weight in the front would make sense. Bike Touring News posted this article about loading low trail (Gilles Berthoud) and high trail (AHH) and my takeaway was low trail needs the weight up front. They were less specific about the high trial.
Hope this helps John Hawrylak Woodstown NJ. On Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at 8:53:51 PM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote: > Chauncey Matthews built me a pair of nice front lowriders, and I used them > today with about 9 lb distributed across both sides. This slowed the > steering noticeably but not annoyingly; but I daresay that adding 10 more > lb a side would do something to the steering I don't like. > > Steve, at the bike shop, said his rule is "70% front;" he has a Soma > randonneur. > > > -- 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.
