It is kind of tricky setting up a decaleur because of all the weird measurements you need to take.
Comparison bike: My Hillborne (56cm). It measures 310mm from the center of the brake bolt on the fork crown to the center of my Noodle bars. My front rack is a custom, but one that is similar in shape to a Mark's Rack, so I'll call that a wash. I'm using a H121 to reach all the way down to a decent spot on a medium sized handlebar bag, a 220mm tall Loyal. So, since your bike is ~30mm bigger, if you got a Large Berthoud bag that is ~50mm taller than mine, you should be able to use the H121 like me, and you would have the top of your bag ~20mm higher than mine is relative to the handlebars. Mine is WAY below the handlebars on this bike, like 60mm from the center, and maybe more like 80mm below the tops. I kind of like it being below, because I can run a handlebar mounted light, and sometimes at night I run a tiny KNOG light on the bars as a reading light for my map case. I do kind of have to peek over the bars to see the map case clearly. So I think you'd be golden. You might even be able to get away with a H91. Jan said custom because I think the "traditional" way is to have the top of your bag at or even a little above the bars. Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Thursday, September 25, 2014 3:29:39 PM UTC-7, Tim wrote: > > I currently have a Sackville Bar Sack on my AHH but want something bigger > so I'm looking to go large Berthoud. That means I need a rack and I like > the Mark's. So I gave Jan at Compass my dimensions (340mm from the brake > mount on the fork crown to the center of my Noodle bars) and he said the > bag was too small to fill the space and I need a custom made bag. I'm > looking at other options so that I could make the Berthoud work (without > Jerry-rigging.) that leads me to using either the Berthoud H-91 or H-121 > decaleur or the VO fork mounted decaleur. The Berthouds hinge so there is > some adjustment. I've never used a decaleur and I thought there was pretty > much a one-size-fits-all, use whatever you like kind of thing but I guess > not. Any thoughts? -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
