Originally Posted by
southpawboston
Eh, I don't know. Given the construction of the rear rack, I wouldn't say it's expensive ($80 for tubular stainless steel and design touches like fender mounts and strap hooks). I'd say it fills an even less populated niche than the porteur rack... no one else is making one like it. It's also heavy duty, and provided that you can find panniers with hooks narrow enough to fit the rack, it's heavy duty. Personally I wish they'd make two versions of their racks: polished and bead blasted. I'd take a matte, bead blasted version over polished, as I think it would look less flashy.
Thanks for the inspiration Southpaw. I too thought the polished stainless might look a little too flashy. I have the number of a local gunsmith who could probably handle that bead blast job on the cheap, relatively. Would probably look better along side the pearly anodized aluminum of the rest of the parts. Thanks.