On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:20 AM, PATRICK MOORE bertin...@gmail.com wrote:
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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.
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Patrick Moore
Albuquerque, NM
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That rack is very nice. Simple, elegant, understated, a study in
contrasts with the suburban decay in the background...
--
Chris Cullum
Vancouver, BC
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