My Heron Touring is wonderfully stable and yet appropriately responsive for a "country bike", however about a decade ago I put on a small "clamp on the bars type" handlebar bag and it got shimmy coasting no hands down a gentle slope at about 20mph while trying to zip up a jacket. I took the handlebag off and stuffed it in the trunk bag on the rear rack, which made camera and chapstick access less convenient. I have never run a bar bag again on that bike, and never had shimmy before or since.
Knowing what I know now I would have just left the bar bag in place and: a) pedaled, not coasted b) rested knee on top tube while coasting c) put more or less weight in the front bag as an experiment -Dave J On Monday, May 22, 2017 at 10:42:46 PM UTC-4, Bruce K Jamison wrote: > > My SOMA San Marcos 59cm has been a great bike. At the end of a long ride > where I was admittedly tired and not riding in the best fashion (no hands, > leaning way back in the saddle), the bike got the dreaded wobble. It went > away quickly. I went over the bike checking the usual suspects, and am > happy to say everything is fine again. But I was really surprised that it > happened at all. The San Marcos is so stable and it’s even a 2X top tube > model. I guess it’s only human…. > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
