Jan Again, I appreciate your thoughts, and your massive contributions. I'll post findings once I have findings to post.
Have a great weekend On Dec 10, 5:42 pm, Jan Heine <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 10, 11:07 am, William <[email protected]> wrote: > > > With all due respect, this > > needle bearing headset thing, especially, strikes me as voodoo. > > It may be voodoo, but so far, it's worked in 100% of the cases we've > tried. Mark's Ti Cycles shimmied terribly once he added a handlebar > bag, as soon as he took his hands off the bars. With a needle bearing > headset, it only shimmied at 24-26 mph when pedaling at 90-110 rpm no- > hands. His Goodrich shimmied less, but still annoyingly so at speeds > of 18-22 mph no-hands. It doesn't any longer with a needle bearing > headset. After we published this, a reader also changed their headset, > and also got rid of their shimmy. > > Furthermore, we've never had a test bike with a needle bearing headset > that had significant shimmy issues, and we've also never had a 650B > low-trail front-loading test bike with a ball-bearing headset that did > NOT have shimmy. It seems that Chris King headsets, for all their > other virtues, are more likely to shimmy. > > Furthermore, several people, including myself, have experienced shimmy > with loose headsets, which went away when the headset was tightened. > So clearly, headsets CAN be a component that allows shimmy to develop > or conversely, attenuates it. > > So all I am reporting is a trend, and a hypothesis why this may work. > It may be just chance, and on your bike, it may not work, nor on the > next 20 bikes we test, and it may turn out a blind alley after all. > But it's worth a try, as it's inexpensive and easy to do, with no > downsides at all. > > Jan Heine > Editor > Seattle WA 98121http://www.bikequarterly.com > > Follow our blog athttp://janheine.wordpress.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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
