Surly Cross Check

This looks ace so far. More pics please.

What rack is that on the front? Is it the VO Passhunter? If so, how did you find fitting it, any bending required? I'd really like to get one, but have read some less than encouraging reports about fitting them to a cross check. If poss I'd love to see a side on shot, of the front end and then a closer one of how it fits around the cantis.

Also, what bag have you ordered?

Yes, it's the Pass Hunter. Fitting it was strange. I took off the brake calipers and put the bar of the rack through the fork crown and then thought "there's no effing way the supports will reach the bosses. They didn't, worse still, the holes in the support wouldn't fit over the bosses, I was very confused, not helped by the fact VO never supply instructions with anything. After about ten minutes I picked up the bag with the fasteners in and realised I was being a total dick. The calipers stay in place, there's a bolt that passes through the hole in the support arm and then a dome nut that screws on to the other end of the bolt. The supports required a fractional amount of pre-bending and then a little persuasion to fit over the bolt but certainly nothing particularly bothersome.

It's not completely level but I can live with it for now. It would require bolts a couple of inches longer to make it sit level