Maybe someone with a Quickbeam can chime in with their experience. Looking at them stem with albatross bars, you actually might find that it’s rides pretty good with a bag on the bars compared to the basket. In my limited experience of bikes with bags and baskets, they all handle a little differently.
Joe > On Jun 7, 2022, at 12:27 PM, Minh <mgiangs...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ah good question, i use albatross bars. and i wouldnt say its a serious > wobble, but every now and then i do feel something thru the bars. i also use > a steering dampener so the front wheel does not flop with the basket. > >> On Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at 12:10:23 PM UTC-4 jmlmu...@gmail.com wrote: >> What kind of bars do you have? I personally don’t like the Fabio’s chest or >> similar style saddle bags on drop bars because even on 48mm Noodle bars I >> lost the flat grip area. My fingers ended up half in the bag. I think that >> type of bag works better on upright bars but I prefer a basket/rack/bag >> setup for the front and keeping saddle bags on the saddle. On the front, >> keeping the weight as low and back as possible is the way to go. I’d imagine >> that if your current setup feels wobbly, putting a bag up higher would >> exaggerate the wobbliness even more. >> >> Joe in Los Angeles >> >>>> On Jun 7, 2022, at 9:00 AM, Minh <mgian...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>> hey all, i've been using my QB more now, and started to think about how i >>> carry things on the front of my bike. i'm pretty settled on a rivy >>> shopsack+ wald137 basket + nitto mini front (with a safety strap!). I know >>> this is a little perilous according to the stated specs, so would consider >>> other options. >> >>> >>> I'm mostly happy with this, i do get a little bit of wobble or shimmy. >>> But i also feel like this is how i've always done things so curious how >>> other people are carry things--particularly on front of teh bike. For >>> example i see all these Fabio's Chest running around, is it better to carry >>> stuff off the bar? Larger porter racks and bags? >>> >>> This bike is my high security storage only bike, so i'm not too worried >>> about leaving bags on the bike. Would appreciate peoples thoughts, >>> opinions, philosophy on this! >> >>> -- >>> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/60507588-3492-4122-9c13-71e47fc08587n%40googlegroups.com. > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/3a2187e2-1198-4f61-ace6-9b0d68b2fdedn%40googlegroups.com. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/E356DFF3-9E70-4458-88B9-6FE3B90A47B5%40gmail.com.
