Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I can't currently think of a front rack that is less-attractive to my eye than a Surly 8-pack. That tells you more subjectively about my eye than it does objectively about the Surly 8-pack rack, but I think it's a pretty gross design, and I'd totally run one on my bike, provided that I was dead set on running a front rack, and I had exhausted every other possible option.
I don't know for sure, but I have seen at Rivendell Bicycle Works, a rack 'laying around' that looked exactly like a Nitto F27 rack, but was missing the detachable front lowriders and the rack had no attachment points for any detachable front lowriders. When I asked "what's that?", they said "prototype for something we're thinking about". So, I'm not a betting man, and I don't know for sure, but If I was a betting man, I'd bet that the "Nitto Basket Rack" from Rivendell would resemble a Nitto 27F, without the detachable lowriders. I would also bet that it's price would land somewhere in between the Nitto 32F that Rivendell sells for $140, and the Nitto 34F that Rivendell sells for $218. I have three bikes that currently run a Wald Basket on a front rack. All three racks load the front hub at the dropout, and use the up-top connection point as only a rotation-resistor. They are: 1. Wald huge basket on Nitto 34F rack on HubbuHubbuH tandem 2. Wald medium basket on Nitto F20 "Mt Campee" rack on Medium Mountain Mixte 3. Wald medium basket on Velo Orange Constructeur front rack on Windsor Carrera Sport Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 2:06:33 PM UTC-7, Ginz wrote: > > I've been thinking about this an I'm really intrigued by the Surly 8-Pack > rack vs. the Nitto 32F. The surly doesn't seem to interfere with the fork > crown and straddle carrier in any way. Installation looks as clunky as any > of these racks with canti-brakes. > > Also curious to see what the Nitto basket rack looks like, but might try > to pick up a used Surly 8-Pack if I see one. > >> >>> -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
