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Title: w00t! New rack!
Post by: maximusotter on March 28, 2006, 22:51:31 PM

OK, its pretty dorky to get excited about a bike rack, but I had to special order one because of my disc brakes. The guy at the shop tried to push some pussilanimous post mounted jobber at me, and I  told him no, I wanted the uberest capacity in all of Butcher Holler.

So it ended up being an Axiom Journey...with a 110pound capacity. Thats 50kg for you metric types.  :mrgreen:  

A manly mans rack. :lol:

http://tinyurl.com/gc67v

Going to pick it up right now...bye!

:D

Title: w00t! New rack!
Post by: Ceathreamhnan on March 29, 2006, 00:03:10 AM

Quote from: maximusotter

OK, its pretty dorky to get excited about a bike rack

:mutley:

Title: w00t! New rack!
Post by: maximusotter on March 29, 2006, 04:19:56 AM

ello, Gregski. I know its you behind that jumble of letters. :D

Took "only" two hours to install. :lol: Had to reshape all the mudguard struts and hacksaw the seatstay mounts and do a little fabrication. Fenders + rack + discs = just a little complicated. Unlike most racks, all mount points save the one by the mech dropout, had hardware which was adjustable in 3 axes. Wiggly woobly and rubixy. All done and quite impressed with myself. :P

Dumb thing came just like in the pic, which was ever so confusing:

(http://a1072.g.akamai.net/f/1072/2062/1d/gallery.rei.com/media/470621.jpg)

proper way:

(http://static.flickr.com/21/119652120_b9296a8d5a_o.jpg)


The little arm strut assembly is supposed to be mounted on the inside. Thats what took me an hour to wrap my brain around. Almost resorted to a tacky p-clamp.