Bag racks on road bikes

2Fast4Love

I'm going on a week long cycling holiday, and need a seat post bag rack for my road bike.

I'm settled on this, http://www.topeak.co.uk/product/detail/Topeak/Seat_Post_Racks/1297/ but how do I know whether I want the E-type or the V-type?? "Large" frames seems a little vague? I have a 58cm Cannondale Synapse 105.

My LBS doesn't stock this, so I'm having to order blind, any guidance?

Also, what exactly does this item do??

http://www.topeak.co.uk/product/detail/Topeak/Rack_Accessories/4355/

Ta!

Edit - actually I'll be getting one with the side supports, so it's this http://www.topeak.com/products/detail/64 (V-type), or this http://www.topeak.com/products/detail/65 (E-type).

topdude

Hi, the accessory you asked about looks like a mudguard to fit under the beam rack.

willbevan

would be interested how you get on with it as i need something like that for comuting and visiting the gf(28mi),donmt really want to change the winter hacks frame to a tourer lol

2Fast4Love

Ha - ya big mofo!

Seriously tho, if you could give me & ^^^ tips on carrying "luggage" around, please do! Ta.

Magnus Thor

Have you considered something linke a Carradice SQR?

http://www.carradice.co.uk/mountain-bik ... trax.shtml

I have one and it works quite fine.


Magnus Thor
Iceland

aracer

Have you considered the idea of using a proper rack with bolt on mountings? http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/category-Rac ... ts-256.htm

2Fast4Love

aracer wrote:

Have you considered the idea of using a proper rack with bolt on mountings? http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/category-Rac ... ts-256.htm

My bike is too sexy for that, doesn't have the desired mountings.

I'm looking at the Topeak racks as the bag I am mainly considering is http://wiggle.co.uk/ProductDetail.aspx?Cat=cycle&ProdID=5360012458&N=Topeak%20RX%20Trunk%20Bag%20DX%20With%20Side%20Panniers with its various expanding bits, I figure this will be good regardless of how much (or how little) crap I am carrying. Has a shoulder strap for post cycling fun & games.

aracer

2Fast4Love wrote:

My bike is too sexy for that, doesn't have the desired mountings.

The point I'm making is that you don't need the mountings on your frame - you can bolt them on. I've toured on a race frame with no eyes using P-clips and eyelet rack mounts to hold the rack on.

master_grunthos

Carradice SQR is the nuts if you want luggage on a road bike. I use the SQR tour for commuting, a small "zipped roll" for audax and a nelson long-flap camper for touring. all on the same bike one bracket and it's very stable indeed. they aren't cheap but very well made and 100% weather proof. If it's commuting then the SQR tour is the way to go, not light weight or pretty but very effective and just pops on and off the bike.

Nelson Longflap

Did a week's tour of Scotland (taking in the Bealach) a couple of years back with an SQR Tour. This, on a carbon race frame (but I'd advise using an alloy seatpost). If you can bear taking the absolute minimum, i.e., a change of clothes for the evening, flip flops, and washing your kit after riding, then it's all you need.

John C.

How about this rack bag
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/ProductDetail.a ... Rack%20Bag

Not the biggest in the world but very functional and with extra mounts can be taken from bike to bike

2Fast4Love

Nelson Longflap wrote:

Did a week's tour of Scotland (taking in the Bealach) a couple of years back with an SQR Tour. This, on a carbon race frame (but I'd advise using an alloy seatpost). If you can bear taking the absolute minimum, i.e., a change of clothes for the evening, flip flops, and washing your kit after riding, then it's all you need.

This brings up an interesting point actually - my bike has a carbon seat post, will this be an issue with say 5-7kilos of gear hanging off a rack which is bolted to it??

Obviously going to be travelling as lightly as possible, some light trou & espadrills ( ) for the evening, spare cycling jersey & some undercacks, but it all adds up.

ut_och_cykla

aracer wrote:

2Fast4Love wrote:

My bike is too sexy for that, doesn't have the desired mountings.

The point I'm making is that you don't need the mountings on your frame - you can bolt them on. I've toured on a race frame with no eyes using P-clips and eyelet rack mounts to hold the rack on.

Yes Tubus do a full range of good stuff even for bikes without frame fittings. Pricey but ... you're worth it

BUICK

Oh I see... I misread the title of this thread as 'Big racks on road bikes' and expected something else entirely :oops:

over-the-hill

Topeak do a new beam rack with a carbon beam, £115.00 though

gkerr4

2Fast4Love wrote:

Nelson Longflap wrote:

Did a week's tour of Scotland (taking in the Bealach) a couple of years back with an SQR Tour. This, on a carbon race frame (but I'd advise using an alloy seatpost). If you can bear taking the absolute minimum, i.e., a change of clothes for the evening, flip flops, and washing your kit after riding, then it's all you need.

This brings up an interesting point actually - my bike has a carbon seat post, will this be an issue with say 5-7kilos of gear hanging off a rack which is bolted to it??

Obviously going to be travelling as lightly as possible, some light trou & espadrills ( ) for the evening, spare cycling jersey & some undercacks, but it all adds up.

yes this will be an issue - you could break the carbon seatpost.

if I were you, i'd look at getting p-clips and a proper rack - then you can use actual panniers too

2Fast4Love

aracer wrote:

2Fast4Love wrote:

My bike is too sexy for that, doesn't have the desired mountings.

The point I'm making is that you don't need the mountings on your frame - you can bolt them on. I've toured on a race frame with no eyes using P-clips and eyelet rack mounts to hold the rack on.

I'm looking at those bits & bobs, and I can't figure out for the life of me how that works? Can you explain in basic terms how those things will help me get a rack attached to my frame??

aracer

You likely need just to use the p-clips, which should be obvious - they simply clip round the frame and you bolt the rack onto them. There are bike specific ones, but those were just the first example I found when googling, and may well be cheaper than those from a bike shop. The other parts will be unlikely to fit your frame, though they're what I used on a 531c frame - they fit into a little triangular hole you get down by the rear dropouts on most older steel frames, but that's something you probably don't have on a modern bike.