This Space for Rent

Adventures in shimmy

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I took a short trip to the hardware store to get some charcoal and topsoil, loaded them up, and then got to spend the entire trip home arguing that no, the bicycle should not just turn upside down out in the middle of the street. (I don’t know that placing heavy loads in the saddlebags causes shimmy, but I suspect it does. If I had to buy this bicycle all over again, I’d not even bother to get the saddlebags – I’d just get a couple of the xtracycle horizontal rack things, then sew up a pair of mesh saddlebags by myself and use them as wrappers to keep the load from tipping off the horizontal rack things.)