Hi Minh First thing I would do is move the basket so that it rests against the tombstone of the rack. It looks from your picture that you have the basket an inch or two forward - this is problematic. Moving the basket to rest against the tombstone will minimize flex in your rack and also, in general, keeping the load in the basket close to the headtube helps to keep things stable. It may fix your problem overall.
The basket does not need to be rigidly attached to the rack. I have often employed a used up road tube to tie the basket to the rack - tie a square knot in one corner, wrap the tube around the rack and the basket with a fair amount of tension on the tube, and then another square knot on the other end. A simple knot will suffice for the end also if you tuck the end of the tube between the basket and the rack to keep the knot from being undone. This is reliable and repeatable. I can pick up my bikes by the basket when I do this. Old tubes make nice tie downs, in my experience. Cheers, John P. in SF OT - if someone in the SF bay area wants to part with a Clem L 59 frameset we may be able to strike a deal. plz reply off list. On Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at 9:00:22 AM UTC-7 Minh 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-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/83e383ea-5da4-4e27-8b0d-3d4677b9d6c3n%40googlegroups.com.
