It's a wall of beauty! No additional art needed here. Just be sure the bikes are balanced between the two arms. I don't have the heavy duty one like you have, and once one of my mixtes had more of the weight on the right hook. CRASH. What was that? No harm to the bike.
Roberta On Monday, January 24, 2022 at 12:54:16 PM UTC-5 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > [image: 7E700757-34F5-4D32-813B-E9EFB0320915.jpeg][image: > 2958BE54-E0A6-4E62-9750-C20BC1114C4E.jpeg]I finally got the Delta racks > up and loaded. I keep waiting for the huge crash, but they seem sturdy > enough. In case anyone is inspired to purchase one after seeing this post, > I’ll offer some advice/findings here: > > 1. We bought a block of wood and drilled it into a stud, then leaned the > rack against it. The handlebars on these Rivs are wide enough that they > scratched up our freshly-painted garage wall. Adding the wood doesn’t seem > to make the racks any less stable, and it keeps the bars from scraping the > wall. > > 2. Mixte frames are a pain, even on these adjustable racks. You may want > to purchase Saris’ bar that makes your mixte swoop into a diamond frame top > tube. > > 3. Use a John’s Irish Strap to secure your front wheel so it doesn’t swing > and get the brake lever tangled in your ponytail. Seriously. > > 4. Grab low, lift straight over your head and THEN move the bike forward > onto the hooks (tip from RivSister Roberta! Oh, and actually the JIS tip > above, too). > > 5. If you are hanging a mixte, you have to put one hook under the seat > tube/seat stays. The other will go on the down tube. Take care that the > brake cable isn’t being mashed into your paint. > > The system is not without kinks, though yours will differ from mine: > > My poor Clem L is the odd bike out. It just sits on the floor, kind of in > the way. I could tuck it somewhere else but it seems wrong to separate it > from the group. The mermaid Platy is far heavier than the RaspPlaty, so it > stays on the bottom. It’s tricky getting the angle right; it wants to hook > its bars into the rear wheel of the RaspPlaty. The Clem H on top is my > older son’s. That son is promising to be too tall for that 52 cm bike, and > he will need my Dad’s new-in-box 59 cm Clem L. I really can’t imagine > hanging a Clem L up top, and my little son will not be able to get at his > Little Silver Clem if it gets moved to the top position. We’ll see how it > goes this spring. > Leah > On Monday, January 3, 2022 at 9:17:27 AM UTC-5 lconley wrote: > >> Very nice. >> I was all ready to place an order for a Workcycles Kr8 a few years back >> when a brand new Bombadil in my size for 40% off appeared on the Rivendell >> website. I still want one but need to thin the herd instead. >> Apologies for the threadjacking. >> >> Laing >> >> On Monday, January 3, 2022 at 3:25:48 AM UTC-5 Nick Payne wrote: >> >>> On Sunday, 2 January 2022 at 6:46:50 am UTC+11 lconley wrote: >>> >>>> What kind of bakfiets is that? >>> >>> >>> It's a cheap Taiwanese copy of a Dutch bakfiets. A bunch of us got >>> together about 15 years back and placed an order with a factory there. As I >>> recall, it cost about $AU1100 (~$US800) delivered to my door partly >>> assembled. It's pretty cheaply made - stamped dropouts etc - but works >>> perfectly well. It came with a couple of child seats inside the cargo tray, >>> but I removed them. The only real problem with it is that it's overgeared - >>> it uses an SA 8-speed hub where the bottom gear is 1:1, so even with a 24t >>> chainring and 25t cog, that's not really a low enough gear for thumping a >>> full load of groceries back up the hill from the supermarket to our house, >>> considering that the bike on its own weighs some 50 or 60 lbs. Here's a >>> better view of it, with our terrier consenting to be cargo: >>> [image: P1000190.JPG] >>> >>> Nick >>> >> -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/cac8653c-31c3-4e41-b9da-49cfe6a88e30n%40googlegroups.com.
