An artisinal paper clip! Bike Snob would love that... :) That's interesting that yours wiggles itself out, Steve. I can imagine it happening on the roof rack with no safety pin. Hours and hours of wiggling with no human to push it back in, I can totally imagine it walking out entirely. Especially if the back wall of the handlebar bag is rigid and the two tubes bolted to it are lined up really straight. Then there won't be much friction holding the steel retention bar in place. I'll leave the safety pin out on my 300k next week and see what happens with me.
On Mar 24, 12:19 pm, Steve Palincsar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 12:06 -0700, William wrote: > > "While the Berthoud looks very stable, I don't like the paperclip as > > cotter pin. > > For that price, it should be something more substantial." > > > Please! Mine came with a safety pin, not a paperclip ;) > > > But seriously, if you think something stronger is required there, then > > I suspect you haven't used one. There's no force trying to pull that > > foot long stainless retention bar out. All that's needed is something > > to keep it from wiggling itself out, which in my estimation will never > > happen, even if I tossed the safety pin in the trash. If I do that > > youtube, I'll include a comment about that. > > I don't like standard paper clips because they don't last long enough. > I use a circular Clipiola > paperclip.http://volcanoarts.com/cart/accessories/clipiola.jpg I finally had > one > fail, after a year of use. > > As to the rod wiggling out w/o a cotter pin, yes it will. It happened > to me on Bike Virginia. Not enough so that the rod came all the way > out, but it did wiggle itself out about a cm or so. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
