I have a basket on an M12, which is fantastic, but if I wanted to carry a laptop, I'd probably hang a saddlebag off the handlebars. I do put my iPad in a saddlebag-on-the-bars, but also in a Grab Sack in the basket. I have tallish (60cm) bikes, so there's lots of room to suspend a bag without it hitting a rack or fender.
The other answer for sluggish steering on a porteur setup is to re-rake the fork, but I only know about that through the internet. Philip www.biketinker.com On Thursday, September 26, 2013 4:05:00 PM UTC-7, jar351 wrote: > > Hmm. I'm thinking that even if the laptop's in a protective sleeve, > repeated bumping is still a bad thing. I thought that if the strap > attaching the saddlesack to the seatpost were tight enough, there'd be no > bumping, but it seems I was wrong, eh? Now that I look more closely at the > photos on the Riv site, it does seem as if that strap is too high on the > bag to keep anything in the very bottom from swinging back and forth a > little. > > I might be with CoconutBill here in thinking that a pannier is perhaps a > more stable place for a laptop. It's just that that would require me to get > a rear rack *as well as* a pannier. I'm trying to keep costs reasonable > here. > > I'm also starting to wonder whether an M-12 rack + basket might be a good > option. It'll be similar to the porteur rack setup but with two possibly > significant differences: 1) it'll be a little lighter than the porteur > rack, and 2) it'll bring the load back a little toward the headtube. I > believe that both of these differences are good in terms of steering > quality, no? > > Lastly, it occurred to me that some of the unwieldiness might be due to > the shape of the stem on the bike (a high-rise, "dirt drop" model). Maybe > switching out the stem for a Technomic would help things in that regard? > I'm lucky enough to have a 100mm one lying around. > > Andre > > On Thursday, September 26, 2013 8:23:16 AM UTC-7, Dave wrote: >> >> I've carried a 13" macbook air in a small saddlesack and it works out >> provided you've got a nice protective sleeve around the laptop. Depending >> on your bike's geometry and saddle position it can repeatedly bump against >> the seatpost or the top lip of a rear rack. Space wise however it's >> fantastic as it just lies flat against the plastic coroplast at the bottom >> and leaves plenty of space for clothes, food, random things >> >> On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 4:52:52 PM UTC-7, Coconutbill wrote: >>> >>> If I am carrying the laptop up front, it's on my platrack (in the >>> slickersack), and it feels OK, but maybe it would feel sluggish just like >>> her porteur rack set-up. >>> Only yesterday did I realize that the inner sleeve of my Carsick >>> panniers can fit a 13' macbook . It feels much better to me having the >>> macbook's weight lower and in the back. >>> >>> -Evan >>> >> -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
