Dave, With my Hunqapillar I only notice the tendency you describe with a combination of factors:
-- extremely steep climbing (as in on the edge of having to LCG it). -- Heavyish camping load on the rear (50+ pounds, which I rarely carry camping anymore), nothing on the front. -- Wide, swept back bars magnify this tendency, in particular Albatross (and I presume Bosco would as well) For me the fix was simple: -- mini rack in front with trunk sack to hold food. It will be obvious when there is too much in there (which takes a bit of doing -- a large TrunkSack overstuffed with dense food for a four days for two people. -- Shift to Albastache bars (which I did for other reasons, but this is a wonderful benefit as well), and or, climb in a narrower, farther forward hand position. I find Mark's preference for front weight intriguing. I haven't tried front panniers, but I don't like my steering getting messed with (I'm likely ultra sensitive here due to my vertigo). I've settled on carrying my gear in Sackville Panniers, with bag, tent, and pad strapped on top. This keeps weight in the rear lower than with a large SaddleSack, which would get a bit floppy. In short, I wouldn't worry about it until you experience an issue. If you do, the "fix" is pretty simple. With abandon, Patrick On Monday, April 20, 2015 at 9:18:27 PM UTC-6, Dave C wrote: > > What I am referring to is the tendency of some bikes on ascents to have > the wheel wander rather than maintain a straight line. One then makes > minute steering corrections to counter this. > So I was wondering if the weight when placed on the small front rack would > affect this tendency or be unnoticed. > -- 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.
