Congratulations on your new-to-you Quickbeam! If you can post pictures, I'm sure we'd all like to see it. My personal favorite rack for my basketed Quickbeam is the Nitto M-12, that mounts to the canti studs. Granary Cycles had a similar-but-different Nitto rack, but they're sold out.
- https://www.instagram.com/p/Bh4yAFRBCPs/?taken-by=biketinker - https://www.instagram.com/p/BmAGN_mh8kC/?taken-by=biketinker Good luck with your basket quest. Philp Santa Rosa, CA On Friday, August 10, 2018 at 4:03:08 PM UTC-7, Tully Lanter wrote: > > I've got a gorgeous green Quickbeam sitting on the patio, recently arrived > from a fellow RBW member, ready to roll but for a basket and rack. > > Unfortunately there's just one eyelet front and rear, and mounting > anything to QR axles seems imprudent, if even possible. > > The fenders (Berthoud stainless) are currently in these > <https://www.benscycle.com/honjo-3-allen-key-mounting-daruma---5mm-stay---stainless/fender_part_honjo__707-203_707-203/product> > clever > daruma bolts, which are too short for the basket and rack stays (about 2mm > and 4mm wide, respectively). Longer daruma bolts seem like the most elegant > solution, but may not exist. Anyone know where to look? > > If something like the SKS clips > <https://www.rivbike.com/collections/fenders/products/sks-secu-clips-pair-27009> > were > compatible with Berthoud stays, that might be even better. I considered > good ol' P-clamps but am concerned (paranoid?) about mounting loads where a > frame wasn't quite designed for it. > > Open to other suggestions, of course! > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
