But there is basic stability, as opposed to the speed wobble kind of shimmying...my old Nishiki I'd ride through NYC with no hands for miles, besides lights, but through intersections and down hills, even loaded. My new (to me) Cheviot is very hard to control with no hands on a flat road with no load. Why?
On Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at 5:56:40 PM UTC-4, Nash Taylor wrote: > > Sounds like the way you were riding it. Does a bike exist that won't ever > shimmy when someone rides no handed and leaning back? > > On Monday, May 22, 2017 at 7:42:46 PM UTC-7, Bruce K Jamison wrote: >> >> My SOMA San Marcos 59cm has been a great bike. At the end of a long ride >> where I was admittedly tired and not riding in the best fashion (no hands, >> leaning way back in the saddle), the bike got the dreaded wobble. It went >> away quickly. I went over the bike checking the usual suspects, and am >> happy to say everything is fine again. But I was really surprised that it >> happened at all. The San Marcos is so stable and it’s even a 2X top tube >> model. I guess it’s only human…. >> >> -- 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.
