Re: [RBW] Groceries and baskets

A CB750 block!!! That's gotta be the all-time best!!! You rock, Mark!!! On Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 11:08:12 AM UTC-4, Mark Reimer wrote: > > Here's some of my personal best loads - a 40lb bag of wood stove pellets > tied down to my Nitto Campee using a wire shelf to distribute the load. A

Re: [RBW] Groceries and baskets

And my mistake for saying a cord of wood, I had always thought a cord was a bundle like in the photo. I see know that I was a wee bit off! On Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 1:31:42 PM UTC-5, Tim Gavin wrote: > > My mistake, thanks for the clarification. I glanced at it instead of > looking

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Here's some of my personal best loads - a 40lb bag of wood stove pellets tied down to my Nitto Campee using a wire shelf to distribute the load. A Honda cb750 engine block in a pannier, 24 beers, and a cord of wood. The bike handled quite well all things considered!

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Yup...I've seen Mark' beast of burden in action and yup , he hauls a lotta stuff on it. Doesn't seem to slow him down appreciably, though On Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 10:08:12 AM UTC-5, Mark Reimer wrote: > > Here's some of my personal best loads - a 40lb bag of wood stove pellets > tied

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A cord! That's got my hugest load whooped and I often use a trailer that maxes at 300ish lbs. 24 packs I can do. Seen a gentleman in Beijing with a few hundred pounds of melons, that had looked like a record to me. Glad for my oil heat -Kai Brooklyn, NY -- You received this message because

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My mistake, thanks for the clarification. I glanced at it instead of looking carefully. I really like the Campee Classic (with removable lowrider) front racks. On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Mark Reimer wrote: > My rack actually isn't the big rack! It's the smaller

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Kudos to Mark. His Nitto 34F (Big Front Rack) is definitely a more capable of epic loads than the Nitto mini front racks. Tim On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Ryan Fleming wrote: > Yup...I've seen Mark' beast of burden in action and yup , he hauls a lotta >

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My rack actually isn't the big rack! It's the smaller more elegant campee model On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Tim Gavin wrote: > Kudos to Mark. > > His Nitto 34F (Big Front Rack) is definitely a more capable of epic loads > than the Nitto mini front racks. > >

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I have a '97 Riv Road Standard. I've used a medium Wald on a mini Nitto front rack, with p-clamps to the fork legs (Tubus leg clamps are more secure and I will use them if I install the mini front again). The basket fits fine, but may cause a problem if your bike has a short head tube and you

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Exactly. Fred has a mid-trail Riv Road and so do I, so I felt my experiences were germane. I would not make the same recommendations for a low-trail fork (which I have no experience with). On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Matthew J wrote: > > For medium or high trail

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i'd echo tim's comments, i have a big wald basket on my QB (with a platrack), so i overload it often. i've carried a pretty large watermelon, an auto-battery, both were not really fun, but i got them home. but for a normal grocery run, it's fine, you just have to be a little more careful

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it to my bars and off we went, made it home fine, just a couple miles. Buff up the sockets, and coat 'em with some lanolube, they're great. Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:19:26 -0500 Subject: Re: [RBW] Groceries and baskets From: tim.ga...@littlevillagemag.com To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com I have

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I've been carrying heavyish rear grocery loads on Rivendells since 1997 or so. The secret is to use a very stiff rack, and I had very good luck with the Tubus Fly -- 11 oz, rated to 44 lb, which I've maxed out. The Cargo model is rated to 80 lb, IIRC. On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Fred Craven

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> I found that the basket resulted in lots of wheel flop when I put more than ~5 pounds in it. A six-pack of beer in the basket was dicey, and with a 12-pack the handling was downright mulish. > Front low-rider panniers (like the Hub Area Rack and bags, or Tubus Tara, or Nitto Campee Classic