Patrick: That is nicely done, very tasteful. Does your rack maker do this as a regular part of his business or is he interested in doing customs? The work looks beautiful.
I have a Nitto big rack on the back of the Atlantis. While functional, it does look look like a bridge, with the corner bracing & generally rectangular look. I've often mused on something simpler, but need to support perhaps 30 lbs at the max. Mass produced racks seem to be at the extremes, designed either for a 10 lb trunk bag or 50 lbs touring load. dougP On Mar 20, 9:20 am, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > https://picasaweb.google.com/BERTIN753/BIKESMISCELLANEA#5586195366486... > > Lighter than the already very light Fly and very stiff. I'll not put more > than 25 lb on it anyway. I found that it is 1 cm too close to the rear > fender at the fender's apogee, where the hooks/clips on the Ortliebs contact > the fender. I cut material from the hooks and, for good measure dimpled the > fender where the forward hooks contacted it, this last probably not > necessary. I plan to bolt a battery light of some sort at the tail end of > the rack; a hole is provided. Learn by experience: one more cm would have > made all this unnecessary; my fault for not thinking of it. > > One little issue: the rack struts (nicely lugged at the attachment point) > are about 1 cm wide so that even the 1 cm long eyebolt for Berthoud type > fenders is too short. Does anyone know if one can get, say, 12.5 mm > eyebolts? Alternatively, I could use regular 1 cm eyebolts to mount the rack > -- the struts flatten at the mounting point -- so that the eyebolt would > serve the two purposes. Will these be strong enough? > > Right now I am using P or R clips from VO attached at the strut-to-frame > mounting points. > > -- > Patrick Moore > Albuquerque, NM > For professional resumes, contact > Patrick Moore, ACRW at patrickmo...@resumespecialties.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
