Patrick, thanks for the heads up about how to load a Ram. I drove to Augusta last week to try out the Ram that Bill Hammond had for sale and decided to bring it back to Roswell. I have a M-13 front rack and Acorn small rando bag for the front. There are no braze-ons for low riders so anything else will be on the rear. Credit card or ultrallight overnights are all the Ram will see.
Can't help but wonder how the Ram would handle with a low trail fork...... FWIW, the Ram is in one of my fav bike colors, metallic orange pearl. My Bianchi CX is metallic celeste pearl. Think I will sell all my other bikes because they have plain old paint of all things! Cheers, Bill in Roswell, GA On Saturday, July 8, 2017 at 11:15:08 PM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote: > > I realize that different models will handle different loads differently, > but I'm curious about how much weight all y'all carry in lowrider panniers > -- less interested in basket loads or front rando bag loads, though > interested all the same. > > On my '03 26" wheel Road, which I find delightfully somewhat bit quicker > to turn-in than the Ram, though almost -- not quite -- as rock solid stable > in a straight line, about 20 lbs more or less equally balanced in front > lowriding panniers seems to be a kind of limit; steering is heavy and you'd > not want to do a slalom, but it's not bad. (This is with the 20 lb in > front, nothing in back.) Better is about 15 total. 21-22 lb front load > today. > > I recall, as an experiment, very quickly adjourned, putting, what, at > least 40 lb in front lowriders on my 56 cm single tt Sam (I had Dave Porter > add lowrider braze ons). I used 1 gallon and half gallon milk jugs full of > water, at about 8 lb to the gallon. No rear load. > > Man! That was very odd! The bike was so stable it practically stood up by > itself, but it was almost impossible to turn! > > What's all y'all's experience with lowriding front loads on your > Rivendells? > > I once, perversely, put 56 lb of cinderblocks in a Wald Newsboy on the > front of a Schwinn Traveler or somesuch, turned into a short distance > grocery bike with North Road bar, fixed gear. That was different! The big > problem was keeping the rear wheel on the ground. My N D Neighbor has had > the bike for almost 10 years now, with rear panniers, as his short distance > grocery bike. > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten > ************************************************************************** > ************** > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
