I have been really enjoying the convenience of loading my front rack (Nitto 32-f) with a grocery bag full of goods in my Ocean Air Docena (Swift) bag for years. In fact, yesterday, i loaded way more than I should have - at 22 pounds of goods (I weighed it when I got home cause I was curious). I was nervous about the load, even though it rode remarkably well - until I was at a stop and had massive wheel flop. Still, prudence tells me, as much as a big load in the front bag is convenient, it's not safer than two panniers on my low-riders (Tubus Tara) on my Sam. I think, all equal, for load stability and safety, if you're gonna cary big loads, keep them low and off the front wheel - no matter what front rack you have (excepting a Surly Nice Rack or Nitto Big Front Rack, of course, which are both monsters).
On Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 9:23:46 PM UTC-7, Lum Gim Fong wrote: > > My limit on my VO Rando rack is filling up my GBerthoud GB25 bag. I don’t > add more than thst as I was told that the VO rando is ok up to maybe 15lbs > iirc. BTW Those Bertie bags are heavy even empty. > My GB 25 is with Nitto for Pearl stems decaleur bar attachment on bag, no > stiffner- 604g Hea-vy!!! -- 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.
