| Title: | Bicycling |
| Notice: | Bicycling for Fun |
| Moderator: | JAMIN::WASSER |
| Created: | Mon Apr 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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A friend of mine wants to do some touring with her racing bike. Racing bikes, naturally, have no eyelets on which to mount racks. The bike is an aluminum Trek, so the dropouts aren't the Campy-style dropouts with the triangular hole where you can use a Blackburn adapter. Has anyone succeeded in managing to mount a rack on such a bike? Is there, perhaps, some sort of adapter for the rack ends that will allow mounting (or even a rach that mounts to the QR skewer)? Thanks
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| 1648.1 | I seem to recall | WMOIS::N_FLYE | Thu Jul 19 1990 21:08 | 10 | |
I think there is a shop in either North or South Carolina that
specializes in odd items such as you describe. I have the address at
home but won't be in until Monday night to add it to the system.
I am sure they will send merchandise through the mail.
Back on Monday,
Norm
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| 1648.2 | NO SWEAT! | NCDEL::PEREZ | Just one of the 4 samurai! | Thu Jul 19 1990 23:59 | 19 |
At least not for the rack I put on my TREK 660 - this is a steel frame
with no eyelets. I bought the Blackburn AR1 rack ($18.95) from Nashbar
- it uses the single front mount that goes on the brake mount.
For attaching the rack to the frame, I ordered the blackburn seatstay
clamps - THEY DID NOT WORK. They were too large in diameter (I think
around 1/2 - 9/16") for my frame. All they are is a plastic coated,
round, metal clamp. So, I wandered down to the local autoparts store
and bought a bag of 10 of these things in the 7/16" for $1.98 and
mounted the rack. I've carried panniers with clothing, food, spare
camera lens and body, two hardbound books, film, fruit, etc - AND - a
rack bag with another camera body, two lenses more film, all my normal
tools and junk, etc. Probably a total of 35 pounds - NO PROBLEM. Very
solid. Absolutely no slip.
BUT - these are NOT touring frames. If yours is like mine, the
wheelbase is fairly short and you are carrying the weight fairly far
back. It has never been a problem when riding, but it makes the bike a
little unstable when standing still!
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| 1648.3 | As promised | WMOIS::N_FLYE | Mon Jul 23 1990 20:50 | 14 | |
Adventure Cycle
2134 Woodview Drive
Raleigh, NC 27604
919/834-7433
They call themselves "A Bicycle Speciality Company".
Hope this helps,
Norm
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