Hi Tom, The short version of the story (you can look for the long versions by searching for my old posts) is that when riding my Atlantis initially with a medium saddlebag for my commute, I discovered it would shimmy when going faster, especially on slight downhills. A search online for shimmy (first time I encountered it) led to an article that someone had posted earlier about curing the shimmy on their Atlantis with a custom low-trail fork. That led to a search and education on what fork trail meant, a discovery of Jan’s (and others) writings, etc.
Some time later, perhaps a year or so, can’t remember exactly now, I asked Tom Matchak to make two custom low trail (40mm based on Jan’s recommendations) forks for my Atlantis and Hunqapillar. That led to a custom repaint job for both bikes as well. I never liked the gray/plum original Hunqapillar colors, so I had it repainted in pewter and cream which I loved, but on both the Homer and the Atlantis, I think the original colors selected by Grant and painted by Waterford were so perfect I couldn’t do better, so the custom details were the down tube panel and the decals the painter (RBW official painter) had. I loved how both bikes handled with their low trail forks, switched to front loading and the rest is history... :-) Needless to say, I’ve never had shimmy on the Atlantis again. Whether it was the low trail fork, switching to front loading vs rear loading, a combination of both or whatever, is not important to me. IMHO, the ride of the Atlantis as I rode it, improved significantly. I’m not contesting people who front load their bikes with the original geometry and say it’s fine; this is not the point. But, for those who would like to get a better handling (again IMHO) front loaded Atlantis, this is a significant improvement. BTW, I’m also including the original fork with the frame, so any buyer is welcome to do their own tests and compare. And, if current asking price feels too high, please feel free to make an offer. Happy (almost) New Year to you as well! :-) René On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 5:12 AM tc <tdc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey René, > I'm curious about the low trail fork, what you expected out of it vs. the > stock fork, and how it ended up affecting handling of this bike. Thanks. > It's a beautiful bike. > > Happy (almost) new year to you, too! > > Tom > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
