I have installed and tested a couple on clients' bikes, although not Rivbikes. I'll assume you already understand that does not make a difference.
1. Does it hold the bag in place well? > Yes. > 2. Does it rattle? > No. > 3. Does the bag tilt/sway while riding? > No. 4. Was it a bear to install if you have sidepulls and need to attach to > brake bolt? > Neither bike had sidepulls, but getting the brake bolt strut properly cut/angled/installed properly is always a bear and takes the most amount of time doing. As for the other comments regarding not being good to support a bag exclusively by the rack and not sharing the load by the stem or steerer via a traditional decaleur, I think that it's a mostly hypothetical argument, and may have practical merit for only very tall or large bags carrying a lot of weight. For a typical rando bag with 3-8 lb of stuff, it's a non issue. And heck, I am anti-decaleur when possible, and even my large-ish Acorn Boxy rando bag is used sans-decaleur and has survived the very roughest riding a non-mountain bike can take on. Berthoud bags pretty much have to rely on a decaleur because they're not made with straps on the bottom to hold them to the rack the way Acorn's bags are. However, the Berthoud mini-86 is a small anti-decaleur bag that does not use a decaleur but rather just a single toe clip strap to securely hold it to the rack. -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
