<soapbox>A bit of slightly off-topic advocacy here. I'd like to encourage everybody who hasn't to register their bikes at bikeindex.org. If you don't like public registration, that's cool, just make sure you record your serial numbers and keep them safe somewhere. Having your serial numbers is the most important thing if your bicycle is ever stolen.</soapbox>
I registered my Joe Appaoloosa, and here's the rec: https://bikeindex.org/bikes/74159 Here are the photos: https://flic.kr/p/FwvCWP "century mode" https://flic.kr/p/GiURFx "a bit much" https://flic.kr/p/G62LNv "heading out" I'm participating in the Haleiwa Metric Century ride this coming weekend, so I took off all the "extra" bits to streamline a bit. This is not a race, but why carry the weight when I don't need to, eh? The second photo was just a bit of play (there's nothing in the bags). If/when I need to carry a TON of stuff, I anticipate putting the backabike bags on the surly front rack, and putting ortlieb rolltops on the back rack. It's worth noting that it is possible to mount a surly front rack on a joe app, but it's kinda funky. The mid-fork eyelets are too high for the surly rack, so I had to be a bit creative connecting that bit. (I think I figured out the best solution on the 3rd configuration, which is not shown in the photo.) The third photo is when I did actually travel with a load. This worked, but is not the optimum loading pattern, IMHO. I just did what had to be done with what I had at the time. I rode like this from Sonoma to China Camp (about 50 miles) and camped there one night. It rained. In the morning I rode the 30ish miles to Embarcadero bart in the rain. It wasn't raining hard, just the whole time. I was pretty wet, but I survived. cheerios Yet Another Patrick -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
