Actually, I said no such thing. I wrote that I was going 45 mph and moved from the drops to the tops & a tuck when the slight vibration started. I immediately reverted to the drops & the vibration stopped.
Thanks for the reference to the ibob, discusiion & Brandt's thoughts. The thing that most struck me was Jobst assertion that shimmy should be repeatable event, so I set out today, the last day of my vacation, to climb the same mountain road with exactly the same set up and see if I could repeat the shimmy on the descent. Unfortunately I got rained out before I could complete this exercise. I did take a much hillier route over the the base of the mountain to see if I could reproduce it at somewhat slower speeds. When Prof. Garmin recorded my speed at 37.5, I let go of the handlebars on my Rambouillet. Then I shifted my weight between the pedals and seat, but was unable to create any shimmy. The road was relatively smooth, like the downhill that originally created a vibration, but it did have a long series of vertical tar snakes running across the road. I repeated this exercise on a bumpy road at 31 mph, and again, nothing. I headed up the mountain road, but only got about one mile when the skies opened; so I spent a pleasant half hour in a barn with a farm worker overhauling a tractor engine. We hit it off despite the fact that his english wasn't any better than my spanish. After thatI decided it wasn't a good day for high balling down the mountain. Michael On Aug 9, 6:28 pm, Rene Sterental <orthie...@gmail.com> wrote: >y confusion. It's just that the OP stated that at > speed he'd see a bump or something, would tense and hit the brakes and > the vibrations would start; it threw me off. > > > René -- 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.
