Originally Posted by
IdahoBrett
where would one find a front pannier rack like
Chuckk has?.
It's as simple as teleporting back to 1992 or so, when Nashbar was surplussing them!
Mine is Blackburn, but has a fixed bottom mount and only a single top bar.
It makes me think that maybe mine was purpose built for one of the manufacturers that cut way back on their tourers then.
Touring was supposed to be "the next big thing" but got blown out of the water by mountain bikes.
Merida had been a contract builder up to that point, and all of a sudden they had to market all the touring bikes they had been stuck with.