OP was asking about the VO Rando rack, which is different than the VO Passhunter rack and the VO front Constructeur rack. BTW, all have fender mounts. The Rando rack goes on VO proprietary spaced braze-on mounts (different than the Riv standard ones) or you can use p-clamps. It also attaches under the fork crown with a daruma, which will eat into tire clearance as a M6 nut will be sticking out under the fork crown - this may or may not be an issue. In my experience, this rack was a pain to install with p-clamps. It really is designed only for the VO Rando frame, which is discontinued, or on a custom frame. Quite odd that none of the current VO framesets will actually take the VO rack as all utilize canti brake studs.
The Berthoud rack never appealed to me aesthetically, and I have no experience with it. Justin mentioned the Soma rack. I have one of these and the finish quality is sub-VO, which is to say it's at least a couple notches below Nitto. It sat REALLY high in the intended setup. Luckily I had a lot of tire clearance and ran the fork crown strut under the sidepull brake to make the rack sit lower and actually use the fender mount without close to 2 inches of spacers. As I was using p-clamps I was able to simply lower where they sat on the fork legs. It works fine now, but if I had the Riv spaced mounts (same as the Nitto Campee 32f) it would've sat really above the tire. I'd say the Marks Rack is your best bet. Slightly of-topic, I thought I saw a photo somewhere (Blug maybe?) of attachments for the Marks rack that turn it into a full rack that mounts to fork end eyelets. Anybody know where that photo would be? If that came into production, that'd be a really good option. David Chicago On Sunday, October 12, 2014 2:43:37 PM UTC-5, lungimsam wrote: > > Anyone using any of these care to point out what they like/don't like > about them from your experience?. > > I am sure they are all great. But these things are expensive, and I don't > want to get one only to find out, "Oops, I wish I had known that." after I > unbox it. I don't like to hassle vendors with returns. > > Trying to decide, but I don't know much about rack features that might be > a good thing to have, > > like fender eyelet, light mount bracket, works good with other companies' > decalers, higher weight loads allowed, rack weight, durability, etc. > > I am hopefully going to be hanging an edeluxe and maybe using a decaler > with maybe the Sackville BarSack or a Berthoud bag one day on a Bleriot or > Sam. > > If I get Berthoud, should I just go all Berthoud, or does it matter, and > one can mix and match at will. > > Thanks for any info. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
