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MulletX
Joined: 23 Aug 2009
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 Posted Tue Nov 3, 2009 10:03 pm |
Well guys, have had my new Kinesis Racelight T training hack for a couple of weeks and often use it for 2 hour night rides midweek and some commuting. I'm not a huge fan of racks/panniers on road bikes but invested in a Tortec Ultralight rack and Altura Dryline Urban pannier for my commutes....
I'm struggling though if I am honest.....
From a practical perspective my new load carrying ability is great, but it just feels/looks wrong to have a rack bolted to the bike....
How can I deal with this?
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Chip \'oyler
Joined: 03 Nov 2008
Posts: 677
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Posted Tue Nov 3, 2009 11:00 pm |
Grow a beard and wear old baggy 'been bags'
'The idiots are winning' |
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skyd0g
Joined: 12 Jun 2009
Posts: 816
Location: Lancashire
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Scrumple
Joined: 14 Jul 2008
Posts: 274
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Posted Tue Nov 3, 2009 11:06 pm |
shut up you whining idiot
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Dru
Joined: 28 Jun 2009
Posts: 183
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Posted Tue Nov 3, 2009 11:58 pm |
get a rucksack?
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MulletX
Joined: 23 Aug 2009
Posts: 21
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Posted Wed Nov 4, 2009 12:09 am |
| skyd0g wrote: | IMHO... ...continue to use your Kinesis "hack" for your commute and evening rides over the winter...
...with a view to treating yourself to a new "best bike" for when the weather gets better in the Spring. 
...you know you want to!  |
Sounds like a plan Skyd0g!! My best steed is some years old now and is in need of an update!!
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Fungus The Muffin Man
Joined: 12 Jun 2009
Posts: 551
Location: Heywood ,Lancs
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calvjones
Joined: 01 Feb 2006
Posts: 1210
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted Wed Nov 4, 2009 11:26 am |
| Fungus The Muffin Man wrote: | Take it off and get a messenger bag.
or
buy a new bike option
I did both  |
After riding in today without a rucksack/messenger bag (I usually have one on the way to work) I have to say losing it is the biggest single performance upgrade you can make. Just feels so much nicer!
So live with looking like a dork.
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Tom Butcher
Joined: 09 Feb 2003
Posts: 4442
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted Wed Nov 4, 2009 12:38 pm |
| MulletX wrote: | Well guys, have had my new Kinesis Racelight T training hack for a couple of weeks and often use it for 2 hour night rides midweek and some commuting. I'm not a huge fan of racks/panniers on road bikes but invested in a Tortec Ultralight rack and Altura Dryline Urban pannier for my commutes....
I'm struggling though if I am honest.....
From a practical perspective my new load carrying ability is great, but it just feels/looks wrong to have a rack bolted to the bike....
How can I deal with this? |
Helmet and shades not many people will recognise you, either that or just ride it after dark or kill everyone you know.
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cyclists are all-out body fascists who sneer at mere mortals who can't manage 50 miles up a mountain with their bodies bent over some overpriced handlebars. |
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ex-pat scot
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
Posts: 136
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Posted Wed Nov 4, 2009 12:48 pm |
Practise blasting past "roadies" who've not got 'guards and rack.
Look at their pain as you breeze on by.
For added bonus, attach 2 empty pannier bags (fill with inflated balloons if necessary) to complete the humiliation.
It's a bit like turning up to a club TT and overtaking the deep-rim TT carbon monster with your standard road bike...
2007 Langster - getting lighter
2003 Trek 5900 - 7 speed Record
1995 Trek 5500 - TT special
1988 Cannondale T600 tourer
1985 Raleigh Comp - winter
1992 Pace RC200 - perfection
Dawes Kickback Two tandem.
Brompton S2-LX |
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MulletX
Joined: 23 Aug 2009
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 8:03 pm |
| ex-pat scot wrote: | Practise blasting past "roadies" who've not got 'guards and rack.
Look at their pain as you breeze on by.
For added bonus, attach 2 empty pannier bags (fill with inflated balloons if necessary) to complete the humiliation.
It's a bit like turning up to a club TT and overtaking the deep-rim TT carbon monster with your standard road bike... |
Now that sounds like a great idea!! I can remember a club mate of mine enjoying that kind of thing... he used to bang the miles in after work and would regularly wipe the floor with riders on their full carbon racing steeds....
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zedders
Joined: 13 Mar 2009
Posts: 405
Location: Sunny Leics
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 8:18 pm |
Get organised!
Have some kit at work. Shoes, clothes, toiletries etc. Take a week or so's worth in the car at the begining of the week or over the weekend. Then you won't have to take so much stuff in one go, on commutes in? Then use a small bag which isn't to heavy. I use a rucksack. Job done.
"I spend my petrol money on Bikes, Beer, Pizza, and Donuts "
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FOAD
Joined: 26 Mar 2009
Posts: 246
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 10:29 pm |
I just replaced my rucksack with a Carradice Trax seatpost bag....f'in brilliant it is. The best £60 I have spent for a while.
I tried all the other types of seatpost rack beforehand, and found they all looked daft or moved on the post when out of the saddle, but the Carradice is the business and my commuting buddies are queing up for them quicker than Carradice can make them now.
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