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[Closed] Front Rack recommendations

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Looking for a front track for some light touring. Fork is carbon (Genesis number) and has a mounting half way down the leg and a mudgaurd eye. No attachment method on the inside of the fork.


 
Posted : 21/02/2017 1:35 pm
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Specialized Pizza rack is nice and easy to mount. Only downside is a 15kg weight limit, but you did say "light" touring...


 
Posted : 21/02/2017 8:45 pm
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The 15kg wouldn't be a problem, the Pizza rack is on the list. I'm just procrastinating over the looks, can't decide whether I like it or not*. The Blackburn outpost was another.

*I know looks shouldn't come into it but I do like a bike shod with racks and they need to look good, level and all that.


 
Posted : 22/02/2017 11:23 am
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I had an Outpost rack, didn't think much of it. Although it has a higher weight limit, it felt flimsy and the top platform is too small and too far forward to be useful. It is also really wide - would look OK on a fat bike, but on my touring bike (40mm slicks) it looked ridiculous. (Looks are important, I agree!) Much happier with the Pizza rack, rode from UK Norway this summer and it was rock solid.


 
Posted : 22/02/2017 12:32 pm
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cheers steexysix, sounds ideal, do you happen to have any pics of the bike with the rack and the 40's?


 
Posted : 22/02/2017 12:44 pm
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Not the Blackburn, but you can just about see the Pizza rack here on my old AWOL:

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Posted : 22/02/2017 1:15 pm

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