I concede that I don't load my front bag much since I think I'll still be fine with a Berthoud Mini 86, which is a very small bag indeed. Nevertheless, I've not experienced flopping on my Acorn Boxy Rando bag (yet) and it is attached to the VO constructeur rack with only the stock Velcro straps and leather band. I'd imagined that with a more robust and supportive platform, the bag will stay put even with more load.
-B On Jul 26, 10:45 am, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 08:16 -0700, benzzoy wrote: > > > [snip] > > Am I missing an entire genre of advantages of decaleurs? > > You're probably thinking only of a very short bag. Very short bags > don't need much in the way of support on top. A taller bag will flop > around unless it's supported on top, even if it is bolted right to the > rack on the bottom. And you really do not want your front bag flopping > around. > > What of a rack with an integral decaleur? Many builders make them. > Again, for a short bag, they probably work ok - at least, for a while. > Trouble is, as BQ had found on at least a couple of tests, the movement > of the bag tends to break the integral decaleur right off. -- 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-bunch@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.
