I dont know if this helps but my partner's Cheviot rides a lot better with
just a rear load than also a basket up front
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i'm on the pre-order for the MIT AHH and it will be my primary commuter,
and plan on setting it up like Grant's AHH as shown on the staff bike page-
Mark's rack with basket on the front and pletscher rear rack and medium
saddlesack on the back. this should easily handle my typical load (change
I think Rivendells in general handle better with a rear load bias. They
have a high trail front end geometry, at least the older HH's did. Low
trail bikes with 60-70mm of fork rake only handle well with a front end
load. It's really a difference between French and English bike geometry
Here's another data point. With both my Saluki (which was the forerunner
of the AHH) and Rambouliet I use large front bags - either Acorn or
Bertoud. I don't overload it - tools, glasses, wallet, phone, a little
food, rain jacket, about 2 lbs of stuff. If I'm going to carry more than
that
I ride my AHH for commuting and toodlin' with my kids great country
bike.
It's had many configurations, but the current one has been in place for the
past few years, so it works for me:
Front: Nitto Mark's Rack+Wald Basket+Shopsack
Back: Nitto R14+Medium Saddlesack
Notably, this is with
I use a Saddlesack banana sack up front on my appaloosa and a medium
saddlesack on the rear, which gets all the heavy stuff. I just got some
panniers for this bike but haven't had a chance to use them. bagging and
racking a bike seems like one of those things that is never set 100% for
me, and
I think one of the reasons Riv staff really like using a front basket is
that it balances a bike such that it makes carrying a bike easier when it
comes to going up & down stairs. Some of the Riv staff navigate flights of
stairs on their commutes on Bay Area BART trains and maybe in their
Why is it always upside down? Let’s try this...
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Front loads make my Bleriot and Rambouillet wobbly up front.
I rode a couple years with front rack and Berthoud bag but now that I have
had no front loads for a while, having returned to a front rack and load on
my Rambouilet, I don't like it anymore. It was fine when I was enthusiastic
about
Five pages on using or not using a front rack with baskets.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/rbw-owners-bunch/m3Y3EdRhxv4%5B1-25%5D
On my Riv I started with a porteur rack and basket. Seemed like overkill,
so I switched out to a Mark's rack and basket. Then I switched out to the
I have a front basket on all my bikes, but I don’t use them for regular/all the
time loads because I agree that it makes steering less than ideal. I leave them
on the bike for picking up food or other random things. As soon as I take one
off a bike, the next ride I go on is always the one where
=2. I took the front load off my AHH because I felt it made the steering
sloppy. YMMV.
On Monday, September 10, 2018 at 12:26:29 PM UTC-4, Joe Bernard wrote:
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> More power to ya if you're committed to a front basket - Riv staff use
> them - but Rivs are optimized for rear loads and I don't
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