Paranormal activity…
Paranormal activity or just bumps in the road? Whatever the cause, that’s never happened before. As I negotiated the two block stretch by Sam’s where the road has been ground off for repaving this morning, I upshifted so I could stand and pedal rather than trying to stay seated. My butt was thankful, but I’m guessing that caused more rattling on the back end of the bike because when I came over the final bump to smoother pavement I lost the pannier.
I was pretty amazed it came off cleanly instead of catching the bungee and hook and causing me to just drag it. I think I’m gonna blame it on the goblins.
Boo!
TW
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November 1, 2011 at 8:42 am
Curse those goblins!!
It seems like the street crews leave those bumps out there an awful long time.
November 1, 2011 at 8:00 pm
I find that when I stand on my pedals, I lean a bit forward and thereby put more weight on my front wheel and less weight on my back wheel. Perhaps with less weight on the back wheel, it bounces more than normal and this jarred your pannier loose. Or perhaps it was goblins.
Now that I think about it, it was probably goblins.