Re: [RBW] New, custom, minimalist ss rack for Riv commuter
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:20 AM, PATRICK MOORE bertin...@gmail.com wrote: https://picasaweb.google.com/BERTIN753/BIKESMISCELLANEA#5586195366486164322 Other than beauty, what is the justification for the curved stays? They look to my somewhat untrained eye as if they bend the wrong way, which is to say with weight on the rack, they'd tend to bend more rather than resist bending. -- -- Anne Paulson My hovercraft is full of eels -- 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.
Re: [RBW] New, custom, minimalist ss rack for Riv commuter
Beauty, no other. Or perhaps load suspension. (That is a weak joke.) The rack is quite stiff and I will be using it for small loads (again, no more than I could fit in a Camper with SQR, the latter having a limit IIRC of 10 kg). Matthew told me his goal was to make the rack look good even when it wasn't carrying anything and I think he succeeded. The 10 mm tubing, again, is very stiff -- no flex when I yank on it or shove down on it. Personally I like a very direct aesthetic: my own choice would be HJ lugs and straight forks, particularly for a fixed gear; but I am not complaining about this rack (or my Rivs). On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Anne Paulson anne.paul...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:20 AM, PATRICK MOORE bertin...@gmail.com wrote: https://picasaweb.google.com/BERTIN753/BIKESMISCELLANEA#5586195366486164322 Other than beauty, what is the justification for the curved stays? They look to my somewhat untrained eye as if they bend the wrong way, which is to say with weight on the rack, they'd tend to bend more rather than resist bending. -- -- Anne Paulson My hovercraft is full of eels -- 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.
[RBW] New, custom, minimalist ss rack for Riv commuter
https://picasaweb.google.com/BERTIN753/BIKESMISCELLANEA#5586195366486164322 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.
Re: [RBW] New, custom, minimalist ss rack for Riv commuter
Nice! --Eric campyonly...@me.com www.campyonly.com www.wheelsnorth.org On Mar 20, 2011, at 9:20 AM, PATRICK MOORE wrote: https://picasaweb.google.com/BERTIN753/BIKESMISCELLANEA#5586195366486164322 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. -- 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.
Re: [RBW] New, custom, minimalist ss rack for Riv commuter
I hate racks and think we Riv owners hang way too much junk on our bikes, but man that is a beauty. I'd put that on even if I never carried anything. On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 12:20 PM, PATRICK MOORE bertin...@gmail.com wrote: https://picasaweb.google.com/BERTIN753/BIKESMISCELLANEA#5586195366486164322 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. -- 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.
