Copilot Limo - Disc Brakes

andybrock

I (or rather my daughter) has a copilot limo child seat which mounts on a Blackburn EX1 rack.
I would like to fit the seat to my disc braked mountain bike - anyone gor any tips on rack for this as Blackburn dont seem to do a disc compatible ex1??

theblender

If you get a bike with hydraulic discs, which has flat, rather than "cowled" dropouts, you can usually fit the supplied rack, as the calipers on most hydro discs sit flush with the dropouts. Cable discs, on the other hand, have a brake-arm which prevents you from mounting the rack. If in doubt, go to where you're planning on getting your new bike from, and hold the rack in position on the frame, it'll be obvious whether it'll fit on or not. Talk to your local specialist bike shop, as they are the most likely people to come up with a solution.

theblender

Sorry, miss read your post, you already have the bike!! If you haven't already, take your bike to a bike shop which has the rack, and see if it'll fit, you may get away with longer fixing bolts and washers....

Also, Giant make a disc-mount adaptor for rear racks, costs £3.50. Contact your local Giant stockist for details.

andybrock

Thanks spot on advice

robertjmiller

Same thing happened to my friend so he chose a bike trailer instead.

n707301

I have a Co Pilot limo and while I cannot fault the safety aspect of it, I simply cannot get round the lack of luggage. Going anywhere with a young child generally requires nappies, wipes, nappy bags. a change of clothes, bottled/expressed milk, food, etc. I have to question the competance of the designer who neglects such important aspects.

Anyway, rant over, back to getting it to work with disc brakes.

Unfortunately my bike and the blackburn rack was stolen. The replacement bike I have (Tam Saunders, thankyou so much!) is disc brakes and has a topeak rack specifically designed for disc brakes.

Ignoring that the topeak rack is completely incompatible for securing the CoPilot seat (it needs a specific shape at the top of the rack) the main problem is that the width of the rack at the level of the legs of the seat is simply too wide. Now this is obviously not the blackburn rack, but to make the blackburn rack fit you would need to bend the legs outwards to increase the width, and I'm just not convinced the seat would then secure onto the rack without a lot of forcing.

Like I say though, i no longer have the rack to try this out.