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the bag I ordered at nahbs arrived. Just like I expected it to be. Navyblue with a reflective section. The bailey works folks were nice enough to make one for me as I wanted it. It fits the nitto mini rack exactly.
Plate racks look beautiful - but they are a bit of a hassle to keep clean. You need to balance the pain and the gain!
theses are the racks I bought earlier in the summer, for the trailer, I did not buy, I paid $40 for these, Yakima wanted like $80 for theirs, these work just as good
How not to ship a 200.000 euro Netapp filer cluster. Minimal padding, harddisks and components still in the rack. No shock absorbing of any kind. I wonder how many disks are broken. Damaged power cable.
A rare open auto rack was in a westbound CP freight train at Waterford Ave. The car is loaded with eight Ford F150 pick-up trucks. 5/24/1996
Because my truck sets so low, I had to raise my rack or it would have dragged going in and out of driveways
I like to build racks by fixing the deck in it's required location in 3D space, and then join the necessary struts to it.
Anyone who has ever built a rack has tried positioning the rack deck using toe straps, shop rags, electrical tape etc, etc (I know that I have). It's a pretty unsatisfactory (speaking for myself) and painstaking way to to do it, you're always checking and re-checking the racks position and level-ness.
A few years ago I came up with this, www.flickr.com/photos/duncancycles/3600946126/in/set-7215...
which worked ok but was time consuming to set up.
This new jig is an idea I've been thinking about for a while, and I finally got a chance to make it. Setting up the position for this test rack deck was much quicker than the old way, only a couple of minutes, so initial impressions are positive.
After my el cheapo aluminum Axiom Journey rack broke in four welds and sheared one spar, I installed a Tubus Airy. I chose the Airy because it's very strong and light, with Tubus' extender adapter it clears my 700c wheel and fender, and it attaches to the brake bridge. The MMD lacks upper seat stay brazeons.
Basix 59W x 34D x 62.5H - Frame Only. Two full depth maple lower shelves, 2x2 frame upgrade, total lock casters.
When I took my latest rack out of the jig and bolted it to a fork to fit the fork crown stay I discovered that the thing was not even close to level (exhibit A: this picture). I'd been having some trouble adjusting the old fork leg stay jig (a threaded rod brazed to a steel plate with a scribed centerline so I could line it up with the fork jig before clamping it into place) and this time around it fell /wildly/ out of place.
So it was time for a replacement; a section of 8020's smaller sibling, drilled crosswise to press-fit a section of threaded quarter-inch tubing, then drilled front to back to fit a couple of m6 bolts which are locked into place with a pair of brake shoe nuts.
It still needs a little alignment (the m6 bolt is a tiny bit narrower than the slot in the 8020, so I'll need to fabricate a couple of keel pieces to fit between the two chunks of aluminum) and I might want to braze a couple of diagonal braces to keep me from accidentally knocking the stubs of the tubing out of line but even as it is it's much more robust than the stay jigs I was using for the last 70 or so racks that have staggered out of my basement.
me + roommates = many bikes which necessitate an entire bike rack.
I used 1/2" for the skinny road bikes and 3/8" for the mtbs.
Finished up the racks for Ron's light tourer today. Moves things into the time to start thinking about paint colors category.