Thanks, Angus. I have my eye (the other one is swiveled around to the left) on a Tubus Tara and some Ortlieb small front panniers ...
I can imagine that a flexing front rack or a floppy front bag would do all sorts of odd things to the handling. On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Angus <angusle...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Patrick, > > I have had more handling problems from flexible front racks than from > flexible rear racks. I have had good luck with a Tubus front rack and > making sure items on the front of the bike are not free to flop > around. > > I try and put the small heavy items (tools, food, etc...) in the front > and the larger bulky items (sleeping bag, pad, tent, clothes) in the > rear. > > Angus > > > > On Jun 19, 8:22 pm, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It was in shallow retrospect grossly, ineptly and almost culpably > ignorant > > of me to think I could just take 1 1/2 times a bike's weight and shove it > on > > the back anyhow and expect the bike to handle normally. Anyway, I just > got > > back from a brief 17 mile out 'n' back -- flat, no hills, but a few > modest > > curves -- on the SH, this time with 42 lb in back BUT in the Ortliebs > > properly installed on the Logo. *What* a huge difference. It's at least > as > > good as the Motobecane, probably a bit better -- with this amount of > weight > > -- thanks to the stiffer rack (I assume it's stiffer; it's a Tubus and it > > has more struts) and, I daresay, stiffer frame -- it's not light 531, > > anyway. The bike still wanders, and I expect that after a couple of hours > on > > it even this amount of wandering would get tiresome, but it is hugely, > > emphatically and excessively better than with the Axioms hanging off the > > rear of the rack. How obvious in retrospect! > > > > Anyway, I think that the ideal, that will make this bike quite wonderful > as > > a tourer -- and I deliberately chose it over the beefier Atlantis -- will > be > > to take, say, 15 or so lb from the rear and put it on the front. > > > > Which leads to the question: how best to load the front? Platform or > porteur > > rack and big bag, or low riders? I guess, from what others say, that I > will > > be carrying 40 to 50 lb total of load and, again, perhaps 3:2 rear:front. > > > > So, porteur or low riders? And, what is the best value for each -- I > mean, > > brands, models? I know Tubus and Ortlieb are safe bets, but they are of > > course expensive. > > > > Thanks. I may have an Ostrich and a Nashbar rack, plus decaleur bits, to > > sell. > > > > -- > > Patrick Moore > > Albuquerque, NM > > For professional resumes, contact > > Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com > > -- > 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. > > -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com -- 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.
