Although Grant’s advice is good, there’s a mistake in one claim, and I’m gonna be harsh here. The claim that the decaleur carries most of the weight of a front bag is not supported (!) by evidence. The decaleur helps keep the bag from flipping side-to-side too much.
Look at the various ways in which decaleurs are constructed and secured to the bike, and you’ll see than in many of them, the load should not be very high. Look at the decaleurs available here: https://www.compasscycle.com/product-category/components/stems-decaleurs/ Anyone with a modicum of physical intuition, let alone engineering skill, would think that those decaleurs are designed to support the majority of the bag weight. They work in concert with the rack — rack supports mostly up-down loads, decaleur supports mostly left-right loads. Just sayin’. - Max “trained as an engineer” in A2 -- 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.
