Hi David,
My Canti-Rom is probably pretty close in terms of flex (8-5-8 OS, 63cm).
I've found rear rack load + any kind of front load
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/cyclerslife/2696059023/in/album-72157606334274876/>
unleashes the shimmy monster. It's been best with a big rear saddlebag and
light front load
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/cyclerslife/6066131901/in/album-72157627362415265/>.
OK with big saddlebag + light front rack load + front low-riders
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/cyclerslife/9208621617/in/album-72157634488426216/>.
Try a giant rear saddlebag and then carefully add to the front is my
advice.
Best,
joe broach
pdx or
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:10 PM, cyclotourist <cyclotour...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Interesting observations!
> I have the lugged seatpost just cuz' I love how it looks :-) I don't
> have the saddle all the way back in it as that was never the
> intention, but can try moving it a touch forward. I ride loaded pretty
> rarely, so for 98.7% of my riding everything is fine.
>
> FWIW my Quickbeam with Jitensha bars and a front load rides fine
> no-handed. But that's w/out a rear load at all.
>
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 9:57 PM, sameness <samen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > You have a lugged Nitto seat post, so I'm guessing you are looking for
> more
> > setback than something bog standard of that vintage (late '90s-early
> '00s?)
> > natively affords.
> >
> > None of this helps you with no-hands, something I've never been able to
> > accomplish confidently on any GP design ('92 X0-1, '99 Road Custom). I am
> > also bad at bikes.
> >
> > But I have found that if you weight up the front more with RIDER than you
> > would otherwise given our current collective insight into "Higher,
> shorter,
> > backer, better!", you wil peg it down enough to tame the attendant
> > geometries o' the age. I can't explain it, but I have $400 in stem, bar
> and
> > post experiments that are happy to bear witness.
> >
> > I'm sure someone better at math and geometry and trail and and and might
> be
> > able to explain/disprove this on paper, but my experience of bikes from
> that
> > era are that they need some weight up front, and often attendant to the
> > weight up back.
> >
> > I spent five years struggling with Albatross bars on my XO-1... until I
> went
> > with a 13cm stem, kept the height at roughly saddle nose, and moved the
> > saddle forward eeeeeverso. Suddenly the squirrel was tamed. The further
> > forward I was, the less wander-y things got on all counts, loaded or
> not. I
> > basically mimicked the load of a lower M-bar, as it was designed for. It
> was
> > still high(er), it was just further out than made sense.
> >
> > I even have a rack and basket on the front. Heretofore impossible, if not
> > still heresy.
> >
> > Do you ride a lot on the tops or hoods? Go drops, hooks, ramps, put more
> > weight over the front, and see how you go. Drop the stem an RCH. Move the
> > saddle up some.
> >
> > Anyhoo. Our miles may vary.
> >
> > Jeff Hagedorn
> > Los Angeles, CA USA
> >
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