Has anyone got experience of one of these?
Generally they get good reviews, however I watched on on Youtube last night where the reviewer said that on drops, the cradle tended to shift under gravity despite being tight on the bars.
As the reason I'd be getting one would be to keep my bar bag from interfering with my 140mm forks, I was wondering what other people's real world experience was?
And if these aren't that brilliant, what other options have people used to solve this problem?
I have, and my mate. We're both bike packers. Mine lives on the solarismax pretty well permanently as I hate carrying a rucksack so all my tools, first aid and emergency gear are all in a bag on this.
It holds the bag nicely away from forks and allows plenty of space for cables to not be squashed.
Totally rock solid, never budged a nats crotchet and very quick and easy to put on or remove.
Recommended
"the reviewer said that on drops, the cradle tended to shift under gravity despite being tight on the bars."
I would imagine he hadn't set it up correctly. This review talks about fitting incorrectly then fixing the issue -
https://off.road.cc/content/review/racks/aeroe-handlebar-cradle-review-14079
Mine moved a bit inwards towards head tube once or twice, I just added some helicopter tape. May try some old tube under straps next time. Only used on gravel bike but doubt it would interfere with forks. It can only shift in a bit not down. I really like it overall.
I've had mine on my Solarismax and despite being over torqued and having wrapped electrical tabpe around my bars to inprove grip it moved down over time after some pretty rough descents. It ended up just resting on the headest I think and was fine like that. I don't think it'll do any serious damage, might justy want to protect with a bit of tape. You kind of want it as low as possible anyway, and it doesn't interfere with the fork. The bag connects really nicely the straps and is very quick to take off and generally feels very solid when riding. It's a recommend from me despite being a bit miffed that it did move ( I'll check out that link above to see if I've done something wrong in the fitting but I can't see what it'd be). I'm thinking of getting the rear rack too.
I like the look of that. Seems a better solution than stuff with loads of straps. Although I generally like my wildcat lion bar harness, it is a bit of a faff to fit and also bounces around a bit.
