On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 22:59 -0700, samh wrote: > I have two road bikes and they both shimmy, so I sort of feel like a > crash test dummy for the shimmy phenomena. Wind seems to makes things > worse as do imperfections in the road surface. My racing bike has > tried to kill me on occasion. My Rivendell scares me when it starts > to shimmy, but it doesn't approach the level of violence that my > racing bike exhibits. I can keep riding my Rivendell at the same > speed when it starts to shimmy and not crash. Although, with both > bikes the shimmy scares me enough that I rapidly scrub speed until the > shimmy stops. On my racing bike that usually means scrubbing speed > from ~40mph to under 15mph while I hang on for dear life.
The usual cures for speed wobble involve getting your butt up off the saddle a little, and clamping the top tube with your knees. Have you ever tried those remedies? -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
