I’ve adapted the BG lowriders to several different forks, I usually use pieces of rack struts, my lbs always seems to have far more of these than they want, and they are very handy for this sort of thing. Steve
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 11:11 AM Bill Schairer <commut...@gmail.com> wrote: > John, > > The steel used is 1/2 inch by .14 inch because that is what I had on > hand. I suspect a lighter solution would work, aluminum maybe? I believe > my Atlantis is a Waterford bike. No spacers were required for either > bike. I don’t think it matters if braze-ons are above or below. On the > Atlantis they are higher than the rack and on the tandem below. The tandem > braze-on spacing appears very close to 165 and the Atlantis seems to be > 220. The rack appears to be in the 190 range. > > Bill S > > On Sunday, June 14, 2020 at 6:25:01 AM UTC-7, John Hawrylak wrote: >> >> Bill >> >> Looks like a great solution and it would seem to work if the fork >> brazeons were below the rack mounting point, e.g., a BG rack on a fork with >> 165mm brazeon spacing. >> >> Is the 1st picture the MIT Atlantis?? If so, it clearly shows the >> braze-ons mounted higher on the fork than most racks require. >> >> Did you have to use a spacer on the backside so the short connector >> clears the tube of the rack?? >> >> What gauge steel sheet did you use?? >> >> John Hawrylak >> Woodstown NJ >> >> On Sunday, June 14, 2020 at 8:40:25 AM UTC-4, Bill Schairer wrote: >>> >>> My solution with the BG rack was to “fabricate” (cut a couple short >>> pieces of steel flat stock and drilled two holes) a short steel connector >>> piece from the rack mounting point to the braze on. I’ve done it on two >>> different bikes and it has been a rock solid solution that I, personally, >>> think is cleaner looking than p-clamps or that tubus thing. I should think >>> the same approach could be taken with almost any rack and, to my mind, is >>> really no different than all the various mountings of racks with adjustable >>> stays that I’ve seen. I’ve had trouble loading pics recently but I’ll try >>> again. >>> >>> [image: IMG_1012.jpeg] >>> >>> [image: 2019-07-15_14-42-04-0700.jpeg] >>> Bill S >>> >>> On Saturday, June 13, 2020 at 1:50:56 PM UTC-7, John Hawrylak wrote: >>>> >>>> I thought the 'standard' mounting point on the fork was 165mm from the >>>> fork dropout. Bruce Gordon used 7" (178mm) for his front rack, and >>>> Waterford used his spacing in the late 90's and early 2000's. >>>> >>>> The RBW braze-ons look too high to fit the racks without odd looking >>>> backward tilt. They should have used 2 braze-ons: 1 for the low rider and >>>> 1 for the front rack (mounted higher), penny-wise, pound foolish >>>> >>>> John Hawrylak >>>> Woodstown NJ >>>> >>>> On Saturday, June 13, 2020 at 4:31:28 PM UTC-4, Joe Bernard wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Is that lower-rear mount on the fork really for low rider racks? It >>>>> looks like a high-mount for fender stays to me. >>>> >>>> -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/5dd1ddb7-955b-4307-b597-996f4ccc3b19o%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/5dd1ddb7-955b-4307-b597-996f4ccc3b19o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Steven Sweedler Plymouth, New Hampshire -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALimyf%2B8rSsf1cShLfhwb5aooPm1TfuCBK2UtgBKEjZ944d-%3DQ%40mail.gmail.com.
