Bicycle lust item of the day
When I came out of the store today and walked over to my bicycle to load it up, I spotted this 1986 Trek 1000 (three years older than mine) with a 5 rail CETMA rack attached to it. These racks are far prettier (and smaller!) in real life than they are on the CETMA website.
The only problems with them appear to be
- The struts are attached to the middle rails instead of the edge rails (I’d be happier if they were triangulated out.)
- These struts DO NOT PLAY WELL with quick-release skewers; it looks like you’d have to completely unscrew and remove the skewer to get the wheel out, and if you’re going to do that you might as well go back to a nutted axle.
- The handlebar hanger stands quite a bit proud of the handlebar. But that might be usable as an elevated bar for a light and/or a GPS unit, so I’m not sure if that’s an actual problem or not.
Too bad the fenced 5-rail unit is US$200 :-(