I made a grocery run mid-day today, enough eggs, bacon, sausage, cashews and spinach for the rest of the week. When I packed up to ride home, I realized the clothes and cable locks and food were too much for the (medium) bag to hold with its zipper closed. What to do, what to do... then I remembered I had a stretchy clip net thing in the bottom of the bag! That Shopsack bag worked just fine with its unzipped mouth wide open, brimming to over-full, and the stretch net kept everything nicely tucked inside - no broken eggs when I got home.
This was also the heaviest load I've carried on the Wald basket (lashed to a Nitto mini rack), and it definitely affects steering - the laws of physics apply equally in Berkeley as they do anywhere else, an object in motion does not want to be perturbed from its vector. But, with some persuasion at the bars, the wheel responds and the QuickBeam will lean nicely through a turn - though it's also slower to jump back up from its lean angle. I guess all you loaded tourers know this stuff already. - Andrew, Berkeley -- 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.
