Methodically move weight from back to front, if possible try a low rider front, even overloading the front to see what the matter is. Keep light stuff that you need handy in the handlebar bag. I try to keep all loads between the axles and low, so long as it doesn't interfere with pedaling, etc.
Analysis: How does speed change it? Is it worse at low speed? Does it go away at higher speed, or do high speed corrections go too far, or seem sluggish? Is it - the flop- more of a low speed lunging left to right when the front bag is heavily loaded? Flop has a technical meaning beyond what the front feels like in some literature... but the easy thing is to change the way the bike is loaded. I'm sure all loads are well secured. I usually adapt to a bike's idiosyncrasies after a few rides... we ride the bike, not the other way round, mostly. On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:56 PM, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Disappointment. I've owned 3 Riv customs, designed for fast road riding, > and all, particularly the second two, have been magnificent in fit, feel and > handling, even with rear loads. So I was hugely disappointed to take my SH > out for a quick 20 mile shakedown ride with 35 lb or so in the rear (An > Ostrich in the front, but lightly loaded). Too much front end vagueness: > fast downhill sweeper was uneasy-making, and, coming back up sitting at 5-6 > mph, the front end wandered all over the place. > > I have the bars about even with the plane between rump and nose of saddle; > don't want them higher. > > Riv build, so Jack Browns; stiff Tubus Logo rack. The panniers were not > optimal, having been borrowed from my (better handling under rear load, > actually) '73 Motobecane flexy 531 racing bike and sitting a bit further > back than they need to be. > > But what can I do to reduce the front end flop? New fork? New bike? > > -- > Patrick Moore > Albuquerque, NM > For professional resumes, contact > Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > -- Bill Gibson Tempe, Arizona, USA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
