Touring rack craziness!
07-09-21, 05:55 AM
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Touring rack craziness!
I'm setting my Soma Double Cross Disc for some light touring and am going crazy trying to determine which racks will work with my disc brake set up. I'm looking to put a low rider rack on the front (Tubus Tara or a simple Blackburn Lowrider) and a simple utility rack on the back (not planning on hanging panniers on the back for my upcoming trip). I'm on a bit of a time crunch equipping the bike and would like to bypass some of the trial and error! Any thoughts on disc friendly racks?
07-09-21, 06:43 AM
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Axiom Streamliner Disc. We've toured with these for years and they fit almost any bike. The swept back foot gives extra heel clearance and they're a bit more narrow than most. Axiom makes some good products that fly under the radar. The Streamliner Road version is super narrow.
07-09-21, 10:15 AM
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The issue that I have had with mounting racks on disk brake bikes has been more about using a longer bolt on the left side with presta valve nuts as spacers to get the rack to clear the brake.
07-10-21, 07:31 AM
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Wirecutter . com selected Topeak Explorer with Disc Brake Mounts :
" This rack was the easiest to install on bikes with disc brakes . "
Axiom Streamliner Disc DLX
Tubus Disco
https://www.cyclingabout.com/rear-pa...eel-clearance/
" This rack was the easiest to install on bikes with disc brakes . "
Axiom Streamliner Disc DLX
Tubus Disco
https://www.cyclingabout.com/rear-pa...eel-clearance/
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07-10-21, 11:14 AM
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I think part of the problem was simply that bike designers were not thinking about what the purpose of the bike was, such as rack carrying when they designed where to put a disc brake that conflicts with mounting the rack.
On the rear, that appears to be somewhat solved now that some manufacturers are moving the disc unit to the chainstay instead of seatstay. I had no problem putting a rack on my bike with a chainstay mounted brake on a touring bike.
But that created another problem, when the frame designers did that they moved the rack mounting points much higher so the rack was much higher than it should be, as above.
In my case, I have a Racktime Addit rack, that uses aluminum plate for the rack mounting point, and it was easy for me to drill new holes in the rack to mount it lower and also to mount the rack on the fender mounting points by moving the fender stays inside the dropouts. This of course only works if the fender mounting points on the dropout are far enough away from the cassette sprockets so that the fender stays do not interfere with the chain.
But most racks do not allow you to drill new holes in the rack mounting points such as mine did. It was easy enough to bend the fender stays to easily clear the disc.
On the rear, that appears to be somewhat solved now that some manufacturers are moving the disc unit to the chainstay instead of seatstay. I had no problem putting a rack on my bike with a chainstay mounted brake on a touring bike.
But that created another problem, when the frame designers did that they moved the rack mounting points much higher so the rack was much higher than it should be, as above.
In my case, I have a Racktime Addit rack, that uses aluminum plate for the rack mounting point, and it was easy for me to drill new holes in the rack to mount it lower and also to mount the rack on the fender mounting points by moving the fender stays inside the dropouts. This of course only works if the fender mounting points on the dropout are far enough away from the cassette sprockets so that the fender stays do not interfere with the chain.
But most racks do not allow you to drill new holes in the rack mounting points such as mine did. It was easy enough to bend the fender stays to easily clear the disc.
07-14-21, 11:27 PM
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Am I too late? I run Axiom Journey Uni-Fit MK3 on my Double Cross Disc. The rack is behing the rear triangle, and it works for me with large shoes of size 12-13. If you do not run rear panniers, Topeak will be better since it has a wider platform.
DCD with an Axion JOURNEY UNI-FIT MK3
DCD with an Axion JOURNEY UNI-FIT MK3
07-15-21, 06:00 AM
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The Transit TD-1 came mounted on my disc bike and it's been working out fine.
