This is happening on the Homer. It has a large saddle bag but when I was
riding yesterday, with maybe 5 or 7 pounds on the rear rack, it still had
wobble going about 12mph. I did buy it used but it's the factory fork. I
think it may also have something to do with the handlebars. They are
Dearest Friend,
Is this happening on the used Homer you bought or the new-from-riv
Appaloosa? I bought my Cheviot used on this list, and it got speed wobble
at certain speeds down hills. Later, I got in an accident and bought a new
fork from Rivendell, and the bike no longer wobbles. I
Yeah. That is my experience as well.
Mostly it's about the weight between fore/aft.
They tend to be speed-specific. They'll happen at 18 mph, but not at 17,
for example.
Jobst wrote some (fairly strongly opinionated) missives about this - this
came up first:
I've never found that wheel alignment, which is actually frame alignment,
has any effect on wobble. If the frame is out of alignment the two wheels
will not follow the same line when the bike is moving in a straight line.
For example, if the rear wheel is tracking to the right of the front wheel
That's a great question. I'll make sure that they are.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 9:48 PM Fryett wrote:
> Are you wheels perfectly aligned within the frame?
>
> On Monday, March 23, 2020 at 7:01:24 PM UTC-7, Friend wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone have suggestions for correcting a wobble I get when I
I'm not especially big (frames ~58 c-c), but 3 of my Rivendells have
shimmied at 15-20 mph speeds and it was not due to headset wear. (I've
never felt shimmy at any other orientation than straight ahead.)
IME, shimmy comes and goes with very odd and very slight changes. None of
these 3 Rivs
