Hacks / Bodges

It has survived the first speed bump and kerb laden 6 miles round trip on the nursery drop off this morning, so we'll see.

If the nail tips stay glued to the backs, they're about 2 or 3mm into the panel. And there are eight 5mm deep holes behind each mount, and I made sure that epoxy went into each one, across the surface and on the backs of the mounts. I have no worries about the epoxy failing, the only unkown is how good a bond/mix there was between the epoxy on the mounts and the panel.

Have been getting my brother mehteh ready for an 8 day bike backing trip down here in NZ.
Brother say you arent allowed to run a front rack with their carbon fork as each fork boss can only take 1kg, so I remade some stays out of 10mm aluminium tube for the aliexpress rack that P clips to the blackburn cargo cages, spreading the weight between all the bolts. One cargo cage will have my cooker and some freeze dry food, the other will have some clothes / down jacket in a dry bag. Rack will hold my tent. So all in way less than the 6kg total. Also did the two top caps and a headset spacer light mount mod.

Rear rack is made of the same 10mm aluminium tube. Used a $15 hand tube bender to get the overall shape, Crimped each end with the bench vice and then filed them round. Two more P clips with the rubber removed. Painted it all black. Boom, ultimate super simple dry bag rear rack. Will hold an 8L drybag with my sleeping bag, and more clothes. This is probably my 3rd iteration of the simple rear rack with the 10mm aluminium tube, they have all held up to some insane MTB trails for days on end, Total cost of the rear rack was like $25 including paint. Weighs in at just 89grams too!

Nice, do you have any photos of the process of bending the tubing etc?

That rear rack is neat!
I'd love to see it integrated with a B&M/Son rear dynamo light

Brilliant, but that's not a bodge that's proper manufacturing.

Crafting thread>>>>

But yeah, definitely too good to be in the bodge thread. Really impressive. Please do share more photos/details of the process if you can. Really tempted to have a go.

Bike looks fantastic and the racks are really well put together. Spreading the front rack load over the 6 bolts is a good idea but you're a braver person than me, I just couldn't trust it

Reminds me of a rack a friend and I made for his girlfriend's bike (but yours is obviously way more pro). It was when we were at university, coming home drunk one night I saw an old dog fence thing for a car in a skip. The sides had these U shaped chrome pieces that slide in and out. We took the chrome pieces home, pinched the ends and bolted it together. Still in use 15 or so years later (just asked him to send me a photo).

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Very nicely done, whats your front rack? I dont recognise it

Step aside people with your fancy plastic clamps:

Another level hackery. Top bombing.

Thanks, I dont sorry. I have a bunch of tube left over though, so maybe I should do a little write up of how it all went together. A few people have been interested to try it

Hell yea! thats so rad! I wouldnt say mine it much more pro, its basically the same idea just painted black haha

Its just from aliexpress, try search folding bike front rack or something like that?

As well as the bending, I'd be interested to see how you've crimped (maybe that's not the correct word) the ends of the stay you made.
And forgot to say, top work!

Forsure, I will do a little right up shortly. Should I make a new thread for all this or is there a good place to stick it? All my racks have been non welded, so I figured this was the best place, as they are super DIY

Really like that it's cold assembled and therefore more accessible to DIY. As other have said your execution is super neat, so another level than just a bodge... That said this is a popular thread so a good place to find it?

I'd suggest making a thread so it can be searched by title. Then just link to it from here with a couple of photos next to the link.

It's a really great looking solution and people will be delighted to find the write up and have a go, I reckon.
@nick_h. might be keen?

Yea cool, ill make a new thread in the next few days. Just look out for something like 'DIY racks' something something...

This one trick dentists don't want you to know about...

It's funny what your told and not told.

I've seen people with pizza racks on their carbon forks with anything mounts. And people scared to run anything other than what the manufacturer says.

I wonder if all branded forks are worthy of carrying more than they let on..

Chances are it'll be fine. The only problem with front racks is when they do fail (looking at you surly and your 24 pack racks...) it's rarely pleasant for the rider. At least above the pclip or the cage seem the most likely to fail first and shouldn't roll into the wheel.

Still an impressive effort and hopefully all holds up as expected!

For sure there is a safety factor in place for any specified max loads. You will be able to carry loads of at least 50% more and be fairly certain you will not have any issues. There is just the small risk that if you do have an issue, you will not be granted any warranty. How much risk you want to take is entirely up to you.

In my eyes, the risk on a luggage racks is quite low. I don't think any carbon fork will catastrophically fail because of an extra 5kg, the worst that is likely to happen is a rivet pulling out or spinning.

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