I feel dirty

MulletX

Well guys, have had my new Kinesis Racelight T training hack for a couple of weeks and often use it for 2 hour night rides midweek and some commuting. I'm not a huge fan of racks/panniers on road bikes but invested in a Tortec Ultralight rack and Altura Dryline Urban pannier for my commutes....

I'm struggling though if I am honest.....

From a practical perspective my new load carrying ability is great, but it just feels/looks wrong to have a rack bolted to the bike....

How can I deal with this?

Chip \'oyler

Grow a beard and wear old baggy 'been bags'

skyd0g

IMHO... ...continue to use your Kinesis "hack" for your commute and evening rides over the winter...
...with a view to treating yourself to a new "best bike" for when the weather gets better in the Spring.
...you know you want to!

Scrumple

shut up you whining idiot

dru

get a rucksack?

MulletX

skyd0g wrote:

IMHO... ...continue to use your Kinesis "hack" for your commute and evening rides over the winter...
...with a view to treating yourself to a new "best bike" for when the weather gets better in the Spring.
...you know you want to!

Sounds like a plan Skyd0g!! My best steed is some years old now and is in need of an update!!

fungus_the_muffin_man

Take it off and get a messenger bag.

or

buy a new bike option


I did both 8)

calvjones

Fungus The Muffin Man wrote:

Take it off and get a messenger bag.

or

buy a new bike option


I did both 8)

After riding in today without a rucksack/messenger bag (I usually have one on the way to work) I have to say losing it is the biggest single performance upgrade you can make. Just feels so much nicer!

So live with looking like a dork.

Tom Butcher

MulletX wrote:

Well guys, have had my new Kinesis Racelight T training hack for a couple of weeks and often use it for 2 hour night rides midweek and some commuting. I'm not a huge fan of racks/panniers on road bikes but invested in a Tortec Ultralight rack and Altura Dryline Urban pannier for my commutes....

I'm struggling though if I am honest.....

From a practical perspective my new load carrying ability is great, but it just feels/looks wrong to have a rack bolted to the bike....

How can I deal with this?

Helmet and shades not many people will recognise you, either that or just ride it after dark or kill everyone you know.

ex-pat scot

Practise blasting past "roadies" who've not got 'guards and rack.

Look at their pain as you breeze on by.

For added bonus, attach 2 empty pannier bags (fill with inflated balloons if necessary) to complete the humiliation.

It's a bit like turning up to a club TT and overtaking the deep-rim TT carbon monster with your standard road bike...

MulletX

ex-pat scot wrote:

Practise blasting past "roadies" who've not got 'guards and rack.

Look at their pain as you breeze on by.

For added bonus, attach 2 empty pannier bags (fill with inflated balloons if necessary) to complete the humiliation.

It's a bit like turning up to a club TT and overtaking the deep-rim TT carbon monster with your standard road bike...

Now that sounds like a great idea!! I can remember a club mate of mine enjoying that kind of thing... he used to bang the miles in after work and would regularly wipe the floor with riders on their full carbon racing steeds....

zedders

Get organised!
Have some kit at work. Shoes, clothes, toiletries etc. Take a week or so's worth in the car at the begining of the week or over the weekend. Then you won't have to take so much stuff in one go, on commutes in? Then use a small bag which isn't to heavy. I use a rucksack. Job done.

FOAD

I just replaced my rucksack with a Carradice Trax seatpost bag....f'in brilliant it is. The best £60 I have spent for a while.

I tried all the other types of seatpost rack beforehand, and found they all looked daft or moved on the post when out of the saddle, but the Carradice is the business and my commuting buddies are queing up for them quicker than Carradice can make them now.