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Ambrose Nankivell
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In news:[email protected],
Elisa Francesca Roselli <[email protected]>
typed:
> Behemoth doesn't like this at all. Just after I _stop_ nodding my
> head, she decides to convey this subtle movement to the whole of her
> frame, especially to her cranky, hypersensitive steering. And lo, the
> handlebars start wiggling right out of control, left, right, left,
> with barely enough space to compensate the imbalance because at the
> same time I'm trying to slow. I manage to stop her and very barely
> avoid an over-the-handlebars in moving traffic.
Presumably you weren't going particularly fast. I'd be quite worried that
there's a crack in a frame that really can't take that kind of handling,
otherwise I agree with everyone elses posts. Presumably a crack around the
headtube would be the most likely place to cause this kind of problem.
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Elisa Francesca Roselli <[email protected]>
typed:
> Behemoth doesn't like this at all. Just after I _stop_ nodding my
> head, she decides to convey this subtle movement to the whole of her
> frame, especially to her cranky, hypersensitive steering. And lo, the
> handlebars start wiggling right out of control, left, right, left,
> with barely enough space to compensate the imbalance because at the
> same time I'm trying to slow. I manage to stop her and very barely
> avoid an over-the-handlebars in moving traffic.
Presumably you weren't going particularly fast. I'd be quite worried that
there's a crack in a frame that really can't take that kind of handling,
otherwise I agree with everyone elses posts. Presumably a crack around the
headtube would be the most likely place to cause this kind of problem.
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