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Old 01-20-12 | 08:43 AM
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peterw_diy
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The DLX is a nice rack; I have that on my commuter. But

1) I miss having a wide top. With my old bike & rack, I held my U-lock on the top with two bungies, which I could also use to strap boxes & items to the top of the rack. Now I'm stuck with what fits in my pannier & fold-out townie bag.

2) The narrow/"leaning in" design of the DLX brings the side bags closer to the brakes, too. I don't know how wide your bags are (front-to-back distance when mounted), but my work pannier bumps up against my rear canti. It's not bad enough to be dangerous, but it's annoying, and a traditional rack like the Bontrager would probably avoid this with standard cantis, and almost definitely avoid this problem with linear-pull brakes.

That said, the DLX weighs a fair bit less than most of the double-row designs like that Bontrager, so I'm not sure what I'd buy today.

Edit: IIRC, there's also a Streamliner DLX Disc that has cantilevered offsets on its legs that should hold that rack further back and avoid problem #2, though I wouldn't trust the offset-mount "disc" DLX to hold as much weight since it would not transfer the load directly over the frame's braze-on.

Last edited by peterw_diy; 01-20-12 at 08:47 AM. Reason: forgot about the DLX Disc
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