Doug, Thanks for confirming my suspicions.
...Roy On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:35 AM, doug peterson <dougpn...@cox.net> wrote: > 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<rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- Roy D. Yates Professor, E&CE Associate Director, WINLAB http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/~ryates -- 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.
