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Old 01-18-13, 01:30 PM
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Wil Davis
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Very pretty, but I'm not sure about all that weight on the steering! A friend of mine had what could have been a major spill on her Gunnar last summer. She was saved by her helmet taking most of the damage (it split), and all she got was road rash, a couple of broken ribs and collar-bone and a very bruised hip and a few cuts. I did a 20 mile ride on her un-damaged Gunnar a couple of weeks after, and thought what a nice ride, but I think it would have been very unstable with a bag on the handlebars (which is how it was normally configured! Bar-Bags are a bloody death trap! especially on a "twitchy" bike set up for racing! I would have been hard put to ride her bike "no hands" with the bloody bag on the bars. How stable is yours with all that weight up front?

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