I found a long time ago with Sackville trunk bag zippers, they don't rattle if you join them at the side of the bag rather than at the back/front. Anywhere you're having a rattle can usually be solved with a piece of rubber or leather applied tactically. Riding my Lenton this weekend identified one fairly benign squeak that was still too much for me. (here's my '57 modified and Lou's '60 original - though he swapped for wider bars)
<http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/Raleigh/Lenton%20GP/salado/a1KIMG0062.jpg> My front fender was squeaking against the bottom of the front brake. So I mixed a tiny bit of flexible epoxy (rod bond) only on the fender side, and stuck a rubber washer in a nice blind spot between the brake and fender. Brake works, fender is dampened from movement. On Saturday, May 13, 2017 at 1:58:47 PM UTC-5, Jeff wrote: > > I'm looking for suggestions as to how you all have managed to quell: > > 1. Rattles from the zipper pulls of your Sackville Shopsacks as they sit > in your front basket and they get bounced around as you traverse uneven > ground. I resorted to singing out loud (a bit louder than normal) which was > good for me but appeared to irk those exposed to the untuned cacophony. > > 2. Squeaks from your wald basket zip-tied to your front rack - the metal > on metal likes to chirp on occasion and my previously mentioned solution of > singing and/or singing louder is not a preferred long-term solution. > > I'm considering an inelegant small wrapping of electric tape on the zipper > pulls and considering bits of an old tube wrapped around the contact points > of the rack. > > -Jeff > Silver Spring, MD > -- 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.
