Do you get used to small wheel wobbles ?

[steveindenmark]

You need to turn your brain off and relax.

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

Yes, as others have said, you do get used to the twichiness. When I commuted on a Brompton I used one of their bags on the front of the bike for laptop and stuff and found the added weight over the front wheel helped a lot too.

 

[ianrauk]

I think there's an element of that with any bike. If you ride something often enough everything becomes natural, but switch to another bike and it's just not the same until you've got a few miles under your belt.

This 100%
All during the week I cycle commute on a 20" folder. When I jump on my big boys bike on the weekends, it does initially feel very different but passes very quickly.

 

[Drago]

Before a ride have a good vindaloo and a couple of pints of Courage bitter. The wobbles in your intestines will counteract the bikes wobbliest and make for a smooth ride as you blast towards the nearest lavvy.

 

[BADGER.BRAD]

So the advise here is to get Pished,poison my self and carry a 25kg sack of potatoes on the front end . In all honesty it feels less twitchy now I'm getting used to it , It was catching me out a little when doing one handed but now I realise what it will feel like and just brace the bars a little more. It is really useful being able to fold and one is stored on the rear seat of my little car I have been up and down a couple of local stretches of canal and have cycled some of the gravel tracks around the Wyre forest both with my two working type dogs giving them a little more exercise and allowing me to gain a little more fitness. I'm having to keep the pace down a little for the dogs but as I'm totally unfit at the moment it suits us both well !

 

[Drago]

Dont think of it as twitchy - think of it as lively and willing.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Dont think of it as twitchy - think of it as lively and willing.

Agile and nimble

 

[FrankCrank]

Before a ride have a good vindaloo and a couple of pints of Courage bitter. The wobbles in your intestines will counteract the bikes wobbliest and make for a smooth ride as you blast towards the nearest lavvy.

If you wobble yourself back to the days of Courage bitter, then it's a time machine, not a bike

 

[a.twiddler]

One man's responsive is another man's squirrelly or twitchy. After being used to riding a recumbent bike with 20" and smaller wheels on the front, a Brompton felt sort of normal, even though I felt that I was hanging over the handlebars, but getting on my 700C upright bike it felt incredibly ponderous and slow steering until I'd done a mile or so. Once you know what to expect it doesn't take long to adapt but riding any sort of bike for the first time, once you've learnt to ride something else that has two wheels previously, still means a steep learning curve (or wobble).

If you wobble yourself back to the days of Courage bitter, then it's a time machine, not a bike

I tend to think of my bikes as time machines. Give me enough time, and I can go anywhere! But they can't do that.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Brompton felt sort of norma

Feels really high up after a recumbent, like being a giraffe after being a lion.

 

[a.twiddler]

Feels really high up after a recumbent, like being a giraffe after being a lion.

Well...sort of normal in terms of steering responses. Certainly not normal in that feeling of towering over the handlebars waiting for a pebble to send you flying. Can get used to anything, given time. It's not as alarming as it looks, but you get spoilt after riding a recumbent.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Well...sort of normal in terms of steering responses. Certainly not normal in that feeling of towering over the handlebars waiting for a pebble to send you flying. Can get used to anything, given time. It's not as alarming as it looks, but you get spoilt after riding a recumbent.

I do have a Brompton. Nothing like my recumbent from a steering point of view. I speak from my own experience

 

[EckyH]

Agile

Never f... darn ever.

Bad enough that I have to cope with this ... stuff in the company.
But on a bicycle? No, thank you very much indeed.

E.