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I was going to wait until I cleaned the bike and took some 'nice' photos, but given another week of rain ahead, I don't see the point. 🙄
I wanted to share some pics of my new rear rack for my Omnium, made with great love and skill by the always awesome August Bicycles!
The load has been gradually increasing at job number two, and to avoid making a bigger bag for the front, or having to extend the load forward or upward any further, I decided to design an oversize rear rack for those days when I get the "oh, and can you also take this box?"...or when one overstuffed bag of work takes up too much space to fit the others. I figured just strapping it to a rear rack would be a bit easier.
Gav built the whole rack purely from my drawings and measurements without ever seeing my Omnom in the flesh, and he totally nailed it!
It fits perfectly, and is my new love! 😍
I didn't want regular flattened mounting points, I wanted custom made socket style mounts for better stiffness and a cleaner look. Gav custom machined them from stainless steel. The whole rack is fillet brazed and powdercoated, with a cute little August 'a' in stainless to finish it off.
It's a 300mm x 600mm platform which is as big as I felt comfortable going.
I was also pleasantly surprised that the total weight came in at 1.2kg.
Basically I couldn't be happier!
Thank you once again to the ever awesome Gav and Amy at August for always having my back! 😘
August took some great pics HERE too before shipping!