Since Christie Cycles closed in Melbourne a year ago where is the best place to go for front low rider racks?
Mike
Mike
Any half-decent bike shop can get hold of them for you. Blackburn are still the pick, maybe Tubus, but they are a bit pricey.Mike said:coppershark wrote:
> Since Christie Cycles closed in Melbourne a year ago where is the best
> place to go for front low rider racks?
Conventional or suspension forks? hard to find here.
You could mail-order from the US etc. I got mine from aebike.com .
coppershark said:Since Christie Cycles closed in Melbourne a year ago where is the best place to go for front low rider racks?
Mike
suzyj said:Mfhor wrote:
> Blackburn are still the pick, maybe Tubus, but they are a bit pricey.
One of my workmates has Tubus racks, and they're utterly gorgeous. The aluminium Blackburn ones look like junk in comparison. Don't know any local places you could buy them tho.
Regards,
Suzy
Peter Signorini said:"suzyj" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Marty Wallace wrote:
>
> > Hmm..
> > I'd steer clear of stainless steel on racks. Vibration will cause
> fatigue
> > with time. What about chrome-moly steel?
>
> I was thinking CrMo would be bad because of rust. Attachments are
> bound to vibrate, and wear through paint to the metal underneath. With
> stainless, this isn't an issue because there is no paint.
CrMo is stronger than stainless steel for the same weight of rack, and there
is still enough chrome in it to make it very rust resistant. Have a close
look at someone's scraped CrMo frame (like mine). The scratches are barely
rusted. I think stainless has 11% chrome while CrMo as about 4-5%. But then
I'm no metalurgist.
Cheers
Peter
Yes, should be - but it sort of limits where you can put the mounting points on a front rack . . .suzyj said:mfhor wrote:
> BTW, I'd steer well clear of just drilling a hole straight through
> the diameter for mounting screws, without reinforcing the hole
> in some way (sleeve and edge-weld the hole, or slap a big
> washer-type eyelet on).
I was thinking of machining solid stainless plugs maybe 2cm long, and a slip fit into the tube, silver soldering them in to the end of the tube (see the pics at the end of http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~sjackson/frame/addendum.html for an example of the sort of technique - though with a plug-style dropout) and then cross drilling a 5mm hole through that. Plenty strong, methinks.
Regards,
Suzy
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