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My old kona ute used to shimmy like no other above about 15mph! Could barely ride it above 20!
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Assuming you’ve got the same head tube angle as the bmx, I guess being able to ride your cycle truck with no hands depends on whether you could ride the original bmx no handed with that wheel and tyre. If you never had the original bike, you might never know.
Can you do a plot to see where the contact patch is on the ground? Draw a line through the head tube centre and it should pass through the contact patch +/- not too much. If it’s way forward or backward of that, the handling will suffer.
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That's turned out great! Love the wooden bung/rack as well
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So I got my cycletruck put together last night and took it out for its first ride today. All good except I'm getting a shimmy when I take my hands off the bars. Anyone else got a cycletruck and that suffers this?
I had a bit of weight on the front of it, not sure if that's got anything to do with it. Meant to try it unloaded after I got home but forgot.
Headtube angle on my drawing is 72deg (will check what it actually came out to tomorrow) and fork is a bmx one with steerer extended so has about 30mm rake. That sound like a recipe for disaster to anyone?
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