Originally Posted by
Steve B.
I've owned this bike 25 years, its a Miyata City Liner, lugged steel, I had re-painted to a pretty green. Ive never used it touring, its been my commuter mostly and JRA bike. I recently retired and received a nice retirement gift card at REI from my co-workers, so invested in Ortleib panniers, plus some Axiom and Roswheel racks, and will soon set out on my life long dream of actually doing some touring.
How's this working out? I did a trip with my City Liner and the bike was a wet noodle with a rear load, I could not get out of the saddle. It was much better with the weight concentrated in the front panniers. In hindsight the rear rack had loosened up early in the trip, and I didn't catch it till just before I reconfigured my load, so that could have been part of the problem. that and the 250 pounds of me....