>From your pictures, your front rack/basket seems to be set up as good as it can be, i.e., the rack is as low as possible and all the weight is on the rack, none is on the bars. I do not see any improvements there
So the shimmy is likely caused by the amount of weight on the front and the high trail & flop inherent in you QB. The QB seems to be a 56 or 58cm frame and per the RBW specs on Cyclofiend ( Cyclofiend: RBW: Frame Geometry Archive Info <http://www.cyclofiend.com/rbw/geometry.html#saluki> ) HTA is 72.5°, rake is 4.5cm & with 32-622 tires, giving a 62mm trail and 18mm flop. The trail and flop are both high, and combined with the front weight, is a likely cause of the shimmy. Suggestions Shift some of the front weight to the rear saddle bag to reduce front weight, and balance the load better Use a needle bearing headset, or a HS with needle bearings on the bottom. John Hawrylak Woodstown NJ On Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at 12:00:22 PM UTC-4 Minh wrote: > hey all, i've been using my QB more now, and started to think about how i > carry things on the front of my bike. i'm pretty settled on a rivy > shopsack+ wald137 basket + nitto mini front (with a safety strap!). I know > this is a little perilous according to the stated specs, so would consider > other options. > > I'm mostly happy with this, i do get a little bit of wobble or shimmy. > But i also feel like this is how i've always done things so curious how > other people are carry things--particularly on front of teh bike. For > example i see all these Fabio's Chest running around, is it better to carry > stuff off the bar? Larger porter racks and bags? > > This bike is my high security storage only bike, so i'm not too worried > about leaving bags on the bike. Would appreciate peoples thoughts, > opinions, philosophy on this! > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c2df889c-c289-4f8c-9dad-f90c99b96173n%40googlegroups.com.
