Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

I have the M18 rack and hacked some struts on my CdF (in my thread somewhere). Bought alu tube from eBay for pennies hammered it flat then drilled holes. Not the neatest of jobs but has held so far. I can confirm though when I looked it was impossible to get some in the UK and at a reasonable price.

added all nitto stuff in the basket with ostrich bag etc and its all mad pricey .. I think I am gonna go with pizza rack for cheapness.

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Pelago rack (wide) and restrap rando bag. Custom brackets coming soon meaning no zip tie plate.

What brand is that child seat?

more expensive than nitto tho. This is a lock-up bike. I know no1 will bother about the rack but I want to hurt less if it gets nicked.

Custom brackets

wass dis? I was looking at restrap bag actually for the pizza rack.

get a rack built by the d'menor guy? probs the same rough £££ as a nitto and you get it how you want it.

Bulldog

@emey longer struts?
https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/carriers-racks/tubus-roundstay-l-240-mm-length-titan/

I like my Metro Porteur, it's steel so should last a while and cost me <£20

Looked at them .. I think they would work as the diff between them and nitto struts is 1mm ..

I've tried and they don't fit unfortunately

@amey pity

https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/rack-spares/

Say you had a cross bike, and swapped out the fork for one with a longer a-c and less rake, what would the effect be?

Obviously slacker angles, but what's it going to do to the handling?

Basically looking at this https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CX-26er-MTB-Carbon-Cyclocross-Mountain-Bicycle-Fork-Straight-3K-Disc-Brake-388mm/222818280717?_trkparms=aid%3D777001%26algo%3DDISCO.FEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D52976%26meid%3D776d0ca65ff94a83874c6724a425433d%26pid%3D100651%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26%26itm%3D222818280717&_trksid=p2481888.c100651.m4497&_trkparms=pageci%3Ab40b5558-7ba2-11e8-a9e2-74dbd1809dac%7Cparentrq%3A4bcac3bb1640a9c9f4c494fefff6c9dd%7Ciid%3A1

for my cross-check cos ?????!

Was it in here there was chat about the wee doo-hickies that drop your bottle cages down a bit?

Just built my pomp up again and noticed that with a bottle in the cage on my downtube I can't fit my wee Restrap frame bag. There looks to be plenty room to drop the cage down a bit and while I could just add an extra braze on mount, I don't currently have a right angled drill so getting in there to make the hole will be an issue.

I see this Di2 battery adapter which looks like it'd work but it looks like its made of plastic so the bottle cage might wobble around a bit?

The Shimano adapter is metal, and comes with a plastic shroud for aesthetics. It's not very beefy, so a full larger bidon will wobble about a bit.
Wolf Tooth make much beefier versions of the same thing.

That's the one I was trying to think of. Ta.

Photo from the Wolf Tooth site, the fuck use is the blue bottle meant to be to anyone?

Side cage thingy?

It's one of these innit?

I struggled to get the bidon out of the seat tube cage on my pomp today and there's a lot more room for it, unfortunately I won't be able to lower both cages,

Yeah maybe you are right

the fuck use is the blue bottle meant to be to anyone?

The frame was welded after they put in the bottle, it's the only way.

"if I could only have one bike"........what is it?

Topeak adapters, come as a pair and were than I could find even fake Wolftooth ones for on ebay.

Might try and shift both cages on the pomp and if not I'll probably put one on my klunker as the 2nd toptube gets in the way of large bidons.