Roy: That's a question that I also had, so I did a bit of fiddling on the answer. I took a standard rear trunk bag, appox length & width of a rear rack, and mounted on the small Nitto front rack. Lead dive weights are handy for these experiments since the weight can be concentrated in a small area. A weight placed close to the steering axis had little affect; moving the same weight as far forward as the bag allows (maybe 10"?) had a huge affect on flop & general squirreliness of the bike. This was way beyond the end of the rack but the back is pretty stiff and wasn't flopping.
So I think the reason boxy rando bags orient crossways is to both to keep the weight close to the steering axis and to provide plenty of volume by taking up otherwise unused space between the bars. Note that Riv's Lil Loafer is about the same dims as the length x width of a small Nitto. Cute bag but too small for a pack rat like me. dougP On Feb 23, 5:26 pm, Roy Yates <roydya...@gmail.com> wrote: > Doug and Rob, why are boxy rando bags mounted cross-wise on a front rack? Is it just because the horizontal way makes for > a more useful clear map pocket on top or is handling also an issue? > > Thanks, > ...Roy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
