[RBW] Re: In praise of mid-trail bikes with decaleur-less rando bags
53 Bleriot with VO Randonneur front rack and Berthoud GB25 bag rides great. Even on 18% climb. -- 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.
[RBW] Re: In praise of mid-trail bikes with decaleur-less rando bags
Second that!. I've been wondering this a lot lately. While I agree that low trail bikes have different handling characteristics. I've never thought a mark's rack plus a basket and sackville shopsack, or even a big ass bag like the swift docena, have been nothing but fine on a mid-trail rivendell bike. I hear of wheel flop. But I've never been dissastisfied with a small rack and load on the front of a mid-trail bike, or even a moderate to heavy load for that matter. -- 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.
[RBW] Re: In praise of mid-trail bikes with decaleur-less rando bags
Hear, hear! I've been touring since 1976 (Bikecentennial anyone?) on loaded midtrail bikes, and I've survived, flourished even. I prefer midtrail bikes to low trail. I have nothing against low trail. Many people prefer them but I find silly the notion that they have some magical quality for front touring loads. Now if I had to stack 100 pounds of newsprint on the front, I'd feel different. Chacun a son gout. jim m wc ca On Friday, August 5, 2016 at 2:37:30 PM UTC-7, Call Me Jay wrote: > > I wanted to post an update to a question that I asked the group a while > back: Despite not having a low-trail fork, can you successfully put a rando > bag on a Homer? I've had a VO Grand Cru bag on my Homer for a couple months > now. The Homer still handles great with a light load in the bag and is now > even more "helleously versatile". And...it almost matches my other > Sackville stuff. Kudos to Grant and the folks at VO. -- 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.
