Rear Rack Road Bike Without Eyelets
Except it is a complete pain in the rear to take off the seat and seat post so the bike rack s single arm can slid up the stem.
Rear rack road bike without eyelets. Adding a bike carrier rack to a bicycle without mounts eyelets. The streamliner disc is designed to be compatible with the increasing number of bicycles that use. Next we ll mount the rack to the rear dropout eyelets. Tubus rear racks can be mounted with the tubus qr adapter.
Road bike frames rarely have rack mounting points and road bikes often have short rear ends that cause heel clearance issues with panniers. Rear rack installation methods positioning. But a company in the uk have decided that lightweight road bikes should be more multipurpose so they designed a rear rack and pannier system from scratch which is both lightweight and easy to attach to most road bikes. A standard bike rack with arms on the front that attach to eyelet mounts.
These are commonly used by people with road bikes as road bikes don t usually have the eyelets. It is a great deal for the benefits it offers. The size bolt you ll need here will depend on your bike but luckily most frames use the same size bolts for their water bottle braze ons seat stay mounts and eyelets. Streamliner racks can be mounted to a wheel s quick release skewer or via traditional eyelets.
This is for two reasons. It is an easy to mount yet sturdy rack on which you can mount your panniers. I ve seen the seatpost mounted racks but i ve heard they re pretty terrible. That means it s easy to cannibalize one of your unused water mounts to attach the rack.
It is strong enough carry up to 115lbs. Many bike frames are built standard with rear lower mounting eyelets. How to mount a bike rack without eyelets on your bike. Any advice i would like to be able to ride a road bike in but want to fit a pannier rack so i can carry my work laptop in without it going on my back.
Would like any advice or best way to get pannier rack without damaging or drilling holes into the bike. If you want to use panniers but you don t have mounting points eyelets for a bike rack you can get a seat post mounted rack like the dirza rear bike rack available on amazon. For bicycle frames without lower eyelets several options are available for mounting a rear bike rack. Marc m october 20 2016 july 19 2019 fitness exercise.