To be clear, it's worse than that! My go fast and my Hilsen each have their own Marks rack and each have their own Berthoud decaleur. The gofast uses an H91 and the Hilsen uses an H121. I use one handlebar bag for both bikes. That's $180 worth of decaleur investment. Ouch.
I'm sure lots of folks feel the VO is 'just as good' as the Berthoud for less than 1/3 the price, just like lots of folks feel that a Surly LHT is just as good as a Rivendell Atlantis. Both groups are probably right. Pay for what you want to pay for and do your best to be happy with what you have. I'm likely going to try a VO for when I go to decaleur my Nitto lugged stem on my Bombadil. The Berthoud wont fit that without some custom machining of parts. Custom machining isn't out of the question, though. My dad is bringing me a kick-butt lathe over spring break. :) On Mar 24, 10:37 am, Patrick in VT <swing4...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 24, 1:27 pm, William <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've used the Berthoud decaleur, which I think is the most expensive > > one you can get, and it is working great in combination with a Marks > > rack. It is not the easiest thing in the world to set up, so I was > > going to do a youtube about it, but haven't gotten around to it yet. > > The bag goes between two bikes. It takes much longer than 5 > > seconds. > > i'm sure the berthoud decaleur is super solid. but you could custom > fit two 2 VO stem mount decaleurs (which work as well as my custom > decaleur) for half the price of the Berthoud and make swapping the bag > between bikes much, much simpler. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
