I think Rivs are long trail bikes and do best rear loaded. At least that’s what my Bombadil tells me. On the other hand my Salsa Casaroll started life as a mid trail bike but has been converted to a low trail (38 mm mechanical trail) with a Soma LT touring fork and it hates a rear load but does well with a front load.
I looked for trail figures for the Bombadil online but could not find them so I won’t put out a number since I’m not sure. I enjoy the way both handle but they are different beasts. Sort of like plowing with mules versus horses at least that’s what my grandpa said. John On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 8:40 AM tom horton <swanf...@gmail.com> wrote: > re loading the atlantis in front, I found years ago that mine, maybe > because it’s a big frame/68, shimmied with heavily loaded panniers in > front…you can exhaust yourself trying to find why bikes shimmy. I did two > things: replaced the original headset with a needle bearing one riv sells > and that helped; also put a velo orange front wheel stabilizer on, which > doesn’t really help with shimmy, but with wheel flop when the front wheel’s > loaded. > > at any rate I don’t overload the front of my atlantis, and the basket > alone, with a big sackville saddlesack in back, carries all I need. maybe > not if I did fully loaded touring though. > > and the f34’s still for sale. > > -- > 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.
