Answer: It works pretty damned well. It's on my bike.
I *do* wish that it was keyed in back, so that rotation was impossible, but since I keep the lock nut tight, it works quite well. I've hauled some very large loads in various handlebar bags. Note that rotation is somewhat less of an issue if the bag is also secured via the front rack's tombstone, as it is in most (but not all) cases. Some bags are not secured other than by the decaleur, some are strapped under the front rack rather than at the back with the tombstone, so YMMV. I would also point out that the VO mount is *thin*--maybe 2mm or so in thickness. At least this is true for the 1" decaleur, which looks to be the operating parts welded to a washer. Ergo, you don't really need "spacer" space to install it. Think washer replacement. I was initially worried about rotation and fragility. It's doing fine after two years. Of course, it's not threaded-specific, which is to say that it will work if you have a 1" headset, threaded *or* threadless. Likewise the 1-1/8" version. On Sunday, October 19, 2014 2:03:02 PM UTC-4, joe b. wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Steve Palincsar <pali...@his.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On 10/19/2014 08:53 AM, Andrew Marchant-Shapiro wrote: >> >>> Not entirely true. VO makes a fitting for threaded setups as well: >>> >>> http://store.velo-orange.com/index.php/vo-decaleur-kits.html >>> >>> >> They certainly used to have one for threaded, but that was discontinued >> some time ago. On the page you cite I see only the spacer mounts for >> threadless, in both 1" and 1 1/8". > > > Steve, you must be thinking of the old decaleu > <https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7158/6785541485_b5d478558b_z.jpg>r they > made that hung from the nut on the back of the stem camp. The 1" spacer > mount will work on threadless or threaded, as long as there's a spacer to > replace. How well it works, I'm not sure. In a threadless stack they can > rotate if the bag isn't pretty firmly attached to the rack already. There's > a lot more compression under a threaded locknut. > > Best, > joe broach > portland, or > > > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Steve Palincsar <pali...@his.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On 10/19/2014 08:53 AM, Andrew Marchant-Shapiro wrote: >> >>> Not entirely true. VO makes a fitting for threaded setups as well: >>> >>> http://store.velo-orange.com/index.php/vo-decaleur-kits.html >>> >>> >> They certainly used to have one for threaded, but that was discontinued >> some time ago. On the page you cite I see only the spacer mounts for >> threadless, in both 1" and 1 1/8". >> >> >> -- >> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- 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.
