specialized awol front rack "pizza rack"

Now I See where the Problem s coming from.. !

My bags lower clamp is installed way more down

Awesome. Doi suthep? Loved riding up that. Northern Thailand is just fantastic to ride around. Reckon I can PM you regarding your tour?

@Skülly Got nothing against rear racks, I'm just short so handling makes the bike a bit unpredictable. I also prefer steering a heavy load instead of letting it move me around.

That's cos it's designed for a Rear Rack.

You could ride it on the top rail, no?

Oh no that sticks out beyond the lower part. I see.

Doi Ithanon. Yeah you can pm me!

This are older front rollers, maybe I try a set of new ones

It really depends. Some bikes handle so much better with the weight on the rear - i find especially on older 26" MTBs, for example. If the forks aren't designed for it I think the slow steering you get with frontloading really kills a bike's handling.

Dang, yeah, down from mae hong son. You haz PM!

Hey, people that have had this rack for a while, how is it holding up? I'm really interested in it and would love to hear more about long term thoughts, experiences and recommendations (for OR against)!
Thanks mates-
Gregory

@kjlem your tldr made me really LOL.

ever thought about a pass and stow? also maybe your trail/geometry is not great for front rack?

Never heard about that but it looks expensive. I actually quite like the rack and set-up now, just had to get used to I a bit I guess, its only a bit unstable at speeds around 5km/h so most of the times its fine. I did about 3500km loaded touring with it now.

I solved my problem, fits perfect now, the lower curve rail secures my new bag:

additionally I bought this ortlieb bag (actually a rear mount bag) for 40 bucks in sale, which fits perfect on the pizzarack

Um but that doesnt look like a pizza rack in your last two pics??

That looks awesome. Love to get something simular to put on top of the rack. Do you have a photo from a bigger distance?

Looks good, like the bag
You remember what it's called? @user74608

Yeah probably soon....

Its this one in size large
https://www.ortlieb.com/de/Fahrradkorb/

Bought a pizza rack for my Trek 520 yesterday, and the fit seems ot be okay with the "fitting" triangles mounted on the inside of the rack legs. I would like to move it back a little, but that would only be possible if I remove the triangles and fit it directly through the mounts that are welded onto the rack legs.

The problem is, that the mounts on the rack are threaded, and so are the eyelets on my fork, so I can't see how that would work (?). Would it be safe to drill out the threading on the rack and get some longer bolts for the mounting?

A possitve side effect of this would be a lot cleaner and nicer install like on the Awols that are supplied with the OEM rack - those triangles aren't exactly pretty.

So long as both threaded parts use the same type of thread (they should) I don't see the problem of just bolting it on, will be doubly secure, non?

3 days of cycling with pannier (btwin, plastic clips) has worn the paint off. Is this just to be expected? Is it ridiculous to think about having it powder coated?

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Worn racks look cool...

Has happened on just about any rack I’ve used.

Yea no way around that.

Fair enough. Wondered if it was a bit soon but ah well