Re: [CR]Now:Shimmy Was:"Mojo" or B. S. Confente/Baylis/Herse

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From: <Philcycles@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:23:48 EDT
Subject: Re: [CR]Now:Shimmy Was:"Mojo" or B. S. Confente/Baylis/Herse
To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 7/10/2 2:14:24 AM, monkeylad@mac.com writes:
>This is one of the reasons I've heard to use a heavier tube as the
>TT. The logic is the resonance and flex in the "thin" TT that is
>eliminated by placing a knee against the tube is also eliminated by a
>"thicker" tube. Bruce Gordon used to talk about this, but seems to
>have tamed his opinion over time. Has he "mellowed with age", say it
>isn't so.
>

I'd heard that one as well and I once made a bike with a .7/.4/.7 top tube to see if it would shimmy. Didn't. Phil Brown In NoHo, Ca but about to leave for cool San Francisco.