Nice looking bike and rack, Patrick! I think, however, that your gas mileage on the van must be decreased by the number of stickers on the back!
Jim Cloud Tucson, AZ On Mar 20, 9:20 am, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > https://picasaweb.google.com/BERTIN753/BIKESMISCELLANEA#5586195366486... > > Lighter than the already very light Fly and very stiff. I'll not put more > than 25 lb on it anyway. I found that it is 1 cm too close to the rear > fender at the fender's apogee, where the hooks/clips on the Ortliebs contact > the fender. I cut material from the hooks and, for good measure dimpled the > fender where the forward hooks contacted it, this last probably not > necessary. I plan to bolt a battery light of some sort at the tail end of > the rack; a hole is provided. Learn by experience: one more cm would have > made all this unnecessary; my fault for not thinking of it. > > One little issue: the rack struts (nicely lugged at the attachment point) > are about 1 cm wide so that even the 1 cm long eyebolt for Berthoud type > fenders is too short. Does anyone know if one can get, say, 12.5 mm > eyebolts? Alternatively, I could use regular 1 cm eyebolts to mount the rack > -- the struts flatten at the mounting point -- so that the eyebolt would > serve the two purposes. Will these be strong enough? > > Right now I am using P or R clips from VO attached at the strut-to-frame > mounting points. > > -- > Patrick Moore > Albuquerque, NM > For professional resumes, contact > Patrick Moore, ACRW at patrickmo...@resumespecialties.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
