+1 About what Garth said: if it feels heavy, it's heavy. +1 What Leah said about not feeling the joy over lifting a heavy bike up stairs, onto racks, etc. I have been reducing the rack & accessory weight on my Hunqapillar & Hilsen. Or maybe it's just having a sore arm from all the vaccines I've gotten over the last two years??? I can count at least 10 shots off the top of my head! Doc said I needed a bunch of middle-age boosters, plus flu, plus my COVID shots.
Did I understand this rack alone weighs 4 lbs? That seems like a lot. My largest front rack is a Pass & Stow 5 rail and it's not that heavy. John On Friday, October 7, 2022 at 2:00:17 PM UTC-7 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > Hi friends, > > Can we just talk about the Nitto Basket Rack for one sec? > > I was so excited when this was made and I got one soon after. I have it on > my Overkill Shopping Platypus, and I like the way it looks and its utility > but it is SO HEAVY. Noticeably heavy. Like, when I lift the unloaded bike > onto my van bike rack I struggle - and I’m no wimp. This Platy outweighs my > rear-racked and Backabike’d Clem, and I think the Basket Rack is mostly to > blame. > > I’m toying with the idea of removing it, but then I’d have to get a new > setup for my dyno headlight, so I hesitate. > > I don’t think I’ve heard anyone else complain about the weight of the > Basket Rack; I feel like I’m the only one, which makes me suspect I’m > wrong. Before I do anything drastic, I just wanted to see if this has been > anyone else’s experience. Is the Basket Rack a beast? Has anyone else tried > it and disliked it? > > I know there’s a whole discussion out there about carrying weight on the > front. I guess I’ve never had a real issue with it, aside from not liking > that the bars swing around when parked. I’m not really talking about THAT; > I’m wondering if anyone else finds this Nitto rack unnecessarily heavy. Not > that I’m going for lightweight, here. I mean, look at these pics. > > Leah > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/e669b384-c936-4578-b8ab-cf3d2909604en%40googlegroups.com.
