On the Rando frame (which I have) the Daruma created no issue with tire clearance because there was so MUCH clearance on the bike (in fact, the Rando as designed didn't need a daruma--there was a plate the bottom of the fork crown with a threaded hole for attaching fenders and rack, but I managed to strip the whole in mine). Anyway, I ended up using a canti bolt as a daruma bolt after drilling a larger hole in the fork crown plate, and there was still too much clearance, so I ended up widening the hole in the fender and feeding a brake nut through from the other side, then adding grommets as spacers to secure the whole thing. Because the lip on a brake nut is very small, there's no issue with clearance, and I was able to move the fender down to where it needed to be.
But of course, all of this is over-hacking the scenario... On Sunday, October 12, 2014 9:31:56 PM UTC-4, David Banzer wrote: > > OP was asking about the VO Rando rack, which is different than the VO > Passhunter rack and the VO front Constructeur rack. BTW, all have fender > mounts. > The Rando rack goes on VO proprietary spaced braze-on mounts (different > than the Riv standard ones) or you can use p-clamps. It also attaches under > the fork crown with a daruma, which will eat into tire clearance as a M6 > nut will be sticking out under the fork crown - this may or may not be an > issue. > In my experience, this rack was a pain to install with p-clamps. It really > is designed only for the VO Rando frame, which is discontinued, or on a > custom frame. Quite odd that none of the current VO framesets will actually > take the VO rack as all utilize canti brake studs. > > The Berthoud rack never appealed to me aesthetically, and I have no > experience with it. > > Justin mentioned the Soma rack. I have one of these and the finish quality > is sub-VO, which is to say it's at least a couple notches below Nitto. It > sat REALLY high in the intended setup. Luckily I had a lot of tire > clearance and ran the fork crown strut under the sidepull brake to make the > rack sit lower and actually use the fender mount without close to 2 inches > of spacers. As I was using p-clamps I was able to simply lower where they > sat on the fork legs. It works fine now, but if I had the Riv spaced mounts > (same as the Nitto Campee 32f) it would've sat really above the tire. > > I'd say the Marks Rack is your best bet. > > Slightly of-topic, I thought I saw a photo somewhere (Blug maybe?) of > attachments for the Marks rack that turn it into a full rack that mounts to > fork end eyelets. Anybody know where that photo would be? If that came into > production, that'd be a really good option. > > David > Chicago > > On Sunday, October 12, 2014 2:43:37 PM UTC-5, lungimsam wrote: >> >> Anyone using any of these care to point out what they like/don't like >> about them from your experience?. >> >> I am sure they are all great. But these things are expensive, and I don't >> want to get one only to find out, "Oops, I wish I had known that." after I >> unbox it. I don't like to hassle vendors with returns. >> >> Trying to decide, but I don't know much about rack features that might be >> a good thing to have, >> >> like fender eyelet, light mount bracket, works good with other companies' >> decalers, higher weight loads allowed, rack weight, durability, etc. >> >> I am hopefully going to be hanging an edeluxe and maybe using a decaler >> with maybe the Sackville BarSack or a Berthoud bag one day on a Bleriot or >> Sam. >> >> If I get Berthoud, should I just go all Berthoud, or does it matter, and >> one can mix and match at will. >> >> Thanks for any info. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
