Mountain bikes and rack mounts
I'm looking to buy a mountain bike, with the primary purpose of fitting a child seat using a pannier rack. I already have the child seat and rack and have been using it on my wife's old mtb. Do most mountain bikes have rack mounts as standard? I am looking to spend about œ1000 and would like something that is good enough to race on occasionally as well. Any ideas from you lot would be greatly appreciated.
Andy H
Andy H
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Most of the big brands will have rack fixing points, something like a secialized rockhopper pro I would think is fine.
You can by a rack with one side extended, but that wont fit the co pilot type of seat. To get around this I have the normal blackburn rack which came with a co pilot seat and used a few washers on the disc side. Its an easy and reliable fix for the disc problem.
You could of course use a a different type of child seat , the ones that attach to a seat post, but they tend not to be as good as the co pilot range and its no way to treat a good mtb.
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You'll probably find more expensive bikes are *less* likely to have rack mounts (presumably on the assumption they are more likely to be used specifically for MTBing than for multipurpose).
My first though would be an On-One Inbred (steel frame though, and they are always tinkering with the design so worth checking the current model still has rack mounts). Kona's might be worth a look too (though be aware what look like rack mounts are sometimes just for mudguard stays, and you don't want to be mounting a rack/child seat on them).0
