Fully loaded touring on a "vintage" XL ?
#27
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Try ditching the bar bag. True some bikes do just have shimmy at high speed, but myself and many others have found bar bags(the heavier the worse) to cause it on bikes that otherwise wouldn’t have a problem. A lot of weight on top of a rear rack will also make the bike more prone to shimmy.
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https://www.bikeforums.net/touring/1...-panniers.html Check out this thread.
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Flexy yes, too flexy no.
I have ridden the xl size of two of those bikes. Compared to a vintage cdale touring bike they are super flexy. However, unloaded they won't rattle your teeth out.
My modern Tig steel bike with a fairly slopped (sp) top tube is the middle.
Just make sure you are not running a weak freewheel or fatiguing rear rim.
What other folks said. "Don't over load the rear with weight"
I have ridden the xl size of two of those bikes. Compared to a vintage cdale touring bike they are super flexy. However, unloaded they won't rattle your teeth out.
My modern Tig steel bike with a fairly slopped (sp) top tube is the middle.
Just make sure you are not running a weak freewheel or fatiguing rear rim.
What other folks said. "Don't over load the rear with weight"
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The rear wheel is the thing I’d be concerned about too. I’ve managed to bend an axle on a Bridgestone touring bike with an old freewheel hub. The first thing I’d do if the frame allows would be a set of modern 700c wheels. A modern rear hub at least.
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I'm looking at a lightly-used 25 inch Univega Specialissima...any comments ?
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Hell I see "vintage" and I'm thinking of loading my old Schwinn Collegiate up for a couple-day ride... every time I take it out I think of it too...
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I'm here learning about touring. I'll do my first next June, when I deliver a 24' Trek 414 across the state of Ohio, by riding it instead of hauling it. I'll be a month shy of my 67th birthday.. I will carry very little weight. True, not quite on topic, but not completely off either.
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Had a very nice steel framed touring bike a 58, (I'm 5'10")
with a touring load, in spite of its Oversize ChroMoly Tubing,
1.125" top , 1.25" down tube
it swayed a bit with every pedal stoke..
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with a touring load, in spite of its Oversize ChroMoly Tubing,
1.125" top , 1.25" down tube
it swayed a bit with every pedal stoke..
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