I've installed the Velo Orange wheel stabilizer on a couple of bikes that regularly carry front loads. They're really just springs, so they don't fully prevent the fork from flopping over if the weight in the front is too great and not otherwise held in check with something else, like your hands, but they work well enough in most situations. They have one for 31.8 diameter downtubes and 38-62 downtubes:
http://store.velo-orange.com/index.php/accessories/chainguards-stay-protectors-kickstands/vo-wheel-stabilizer-xl.html http://store.velo-orange.com/index.php/accessories/chainguards-stay-protectors-kickstands/vo-wheel-stabilizer.html FWIW, I lost the clamp for one of them before installing, and just used a large cushioned pipe clamp in its place and it's worked just fine. -Jeff Silver Spring, MD On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 3:46 PM, Ash A <ashw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Happy Friday everyone! > > Today my Appa made its first 24 mile commute to work, with my laptop bag > and bunch of other things in the front on Mark's rack/Wald's basket combo. > > With all that weight in the front, keeping the bike stable while not > moving was a big problem. This is because the steering mechanism would > turn all the way to the right or left, causing the bike to move and fall. > > Perhaps the solution is to somehow lock the front wheel to the down tube. > Quick search on the inter webs told me that there used to be something > called Flickstand. It doesn't exist anymore. > > How do you folks deal with this situation? Velcro the wheel to down tube > maybe? Is there a better option? > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
