on 12/10/10 10:03 AM, William at tapebu...@gmail.com wrote: > Since I'm growing convinced that there might not be anyone who really > understands shimmy, I'm going to run some experiments of my own on my > Hillborne to attempt to understand it more. Since that bike, in it's > current state, shimmies willingly when riding no-handed at 15mph on a > smooth flat road, I think I have a decent baseline and reasonably > reproducable test environment. I'm going to try several (numerous?) > things, and I'll at least try to take better than normal notes, and > see if I can learn anything.
There have been several significant discussions of shimmy on the iBob list reasonably recently and over the years. Ride buddy JimG has also documented his shimmy experiences and expermenting/troubleshooting with a non-Rivendell bicycle via his blog (which can be found via http://yojimg.net/bike ) There are certainly variables he found to damp or reduce speed-specific oscillations. http://sfcyclotouring.blogspot.com/search?q=shimmy And just to mention too, that a general discussion of BQ articles is probably best discussed on a more general list. - Jim -- Jim Edgar cyclofi...@earthlink.net Cyclofiend Bicycle Photo Galleries - http://www.cyclofiend.com Current Classics - Cross Bikes Singlespeed - Working Bikes Gallery updates now appear here - http://cyclofiend.blogspot.com "Then I sat up, wiped the water out of my eyes, and looked at my bike, and just like that I knew it was dead" -- Robert McCammon, "Boy's Life" -- 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.
