Hey ldnfgssers, need some 'elp.

As we know, the correct way to put a rack on a bike is to have small holes in the dropouts and the seatstay to screw it on securely. Unfortunately, my bike has neither. Does anybody know of a hack for getting a rack on? Any bike shops sell special clips or something? I'm open to any suggestions ... sellotape, string, i don't mind.

Unless one of you SAFE people will lend me a seatpost rack for a week or so, a seatpost rack is not an option.

Thanks.

Get some P clips


Evans web page
P-clips web page

thanks fixedwheelnut i will go to my local evans tomorrow.

renan have you been to exeter yet or are you doing the stonehenge thing ? or are you preparing for france ?

lpg try a hard wear store like clerkenwell screws (head east past Grays inn Road on your left) take a print out of thoese clips they or a simlar store will probhave something simlar. Evens do sell them but they charge about 2 - 3 time the amount of a normal shop.

it depends on the weather, as it is so unpredictable these days. 5 mins of torrential rain can fk up everything! Whenever it's sunshining, basically.

Be wary: Seatpost racks will take max 7-9 kilos and p-clips aren't the safest for the load-bearing(bottom) part of the rack assembly.

Would a plethora of chunky zip ties do the job for the duration?
Easy enough to remove when they're no longer required.

Good point MA3K .

Lpg you said you are studdying enginering. DO you have access to any of the machine shops? All you need is a drill ress really.

Take tw0 bits of metal plate say 15mm by 50 mm, drill a 10 mm hole in one end for your rear axel and a whatever mm size hole for the bottom fixing point of your rack. In an ideal world if the rack has two lower fixing points bolt both of these to your rack to creat a secure extension otherwise you would need to allow the bracket to continue up the stay of the rack for say 20 mm and attach a u-bolt round the stay and bracket. If it is not clear I can try and draw a picture but you could also pop down to Gower Place and I could explain it easy on paper.

T

Yeah i have access to machinery but terms over so everyone has gone on holiday. I was thinking 2 things :

1 : Drill a rack-hole sized hole in my dropouts (Bit dodgy)
2 : Drill out the hole in the rack eyelet to make it the same diameter of my hub axle, thus putting the rack/hub thru the same bolt. (Can't really do it as it's not my rack, it's a friends and it will render the rack useless to any other bicycle)
3 : P-Clips/Zip ties/Sellotape (probably my best bet as i plan to carry less than 10kgs on it).

I also have on of those saddle-bags which i will use, i sort of have a problem because my saddle rail-spacing is too thin, it won't accept the fixture. So i think i'm gonna have to tie it to my saddle with string or duct tape. Should still hold fine...

Looks good T, will experiment

sory fuked up

lpg just because term has finished does not mean every one has gone home, it is not school. The summer is when people who work at uni do their real work ;). If you know the people who use the machine shop there may be someone who will help you out.

Im looking into this as well... so far i have come across...


But im not sure how much wait that would take.

And this method

Crappy picture i know, but these brackets which attach the arms from the rack to the brake hole in the frame seemed to be popular a while ago but dont seem to exist any more. Anyone know what they are called or where to get them? Only thing i can think of is finding a dead old bike which has one on.

http://www.cetmaracks.com/
thems raks is the shit and they work on track bikes

i am also looking into doing this, i was going to use a rear rack on the front, in the brake hole and down onto the axle itself
they are a bit narrow so i am going to strap some sort of plastic tray onto it, like the brown bread trays you see in the street

Hmm i cant see how it would attach at the back? Because they are meant to attach to the handlebars right? How would that adapt to the stays? I cant see in the pix on his site where it attaches to brake hole...

familiar looking bike. but I've not seen that colour before

lpg's bareknuckle in it's second re incarnation post paint job

It's illegal to put a rack on a fixie.

yeah one of the gazillion laws bliar brought in in his ten years probably stop check the small print in the anti terrorist legislation stop

i need it to do some touring, london2manchester was fine, but i didn't have so much weight in my bag. I was thinking of putting wrapping the tent poles in inner tube and putting them down the seat tube..also, getting a frame bag, and a saddle bag...other than that, some weight'll have to go on my back : i can't fit panniers, my ffking foot hits them.

becearful of the poles down the seat tube, depending on your frame they may go straight through on
to you b.b. spindle, I can't remember your frame to say wheather this would be so on your frame.

Check out tubus, they are the kings of rack and sell loads of small adapters, for eyelets etc.

Crap thats another thing i havent thought about. Why is life so hard?

because we are a proud people,
so much so that we find many and expensive ways of attaching a rack to a track bike when we should just get a new frame :P