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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
Drypool Bridge viewed through the pivot of North Bridge on 4th March 2013.
The design of both bridges is a Scherzer Rolling Lift bridge. Drypool was first installed in 1928, the current North Bridge in 1961.
Canon EOS 450D f/11 800th/sec iso 200
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.
A rare rack of lamb cooked to tender perfection after being gently marinated in garlic and freshly picked rosemary from the local park.
Right view of racked NL-Series nodes: scale-out NAS hardware product. Photo taken May 2013. More information: www.emc.com/storage/isilon/platform-nodes-accelerators.htm
Simple fixture for positioning the deck of a front rack, while fitting and brazing the mounting elements. Adjustable height (pinch bolts on far side) indexes off of the front axle. Works with any HT angle. Top platform rotates 90 degrees to allow other supports to be clamped on for wider racks.
Destined for a Joe Appaloosa, but I'm using the Rosco Bubbe hulk as a form to assemble it. The Vittoria Sturdy tires are basically as big as I can fit into an Appaloosa fork (nominally 2.3", but the knobs bring it out to closer to 2.5" and that's /really/ close to the chainstays & fork blades) so if I can clear them here I can clear basically everything that's put under the target Appaloosa.
Now to do one rack on spec for this Rosco and then I can put all the rackbuilding stuff away for a month or so while I grind my way through the pile of frames+forks I need to make (the emergency randonneuse, the feeling lucky bike that's going to North Carolina, finishing the 3 speed project frame, a front end for the Tarcktruck, a longtail, and forks for a couple of freebie frames I picked up and want to 650bify.)
And, yay?, 99 racks and I didn't lose my mind in the process.
The rack I bought to carry my bags turned out to be a disaster. It is impossible to prevent it from pivoting around the seatpost and it does not guard the bags from rubbing the wheel. Additional struts provide a solution.
I could have bought a proper rack with its own struts, but the bags attached to a standard rack hang too low and I hit them with my heels while pedaling. So my home-made struts provide a solution to that as well.
Source: 150127_021417.ORF
The rack is fixed to the head tube so that it carries weight without wanting to "dive" as the bike turns. The rack is detachable from the head tube to make the bike easier to ship.
After years of having all my stuff on cheap tables and stacked, I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to a Sanus Systems dedicated audio rack. I like that my system now looks more badass than it actually is.