Originally Posted by
badmother
After reading about the click fix breaking in another thread I looked at the new Dahon luggage and luggage system on your site. It looks great but the prices are "stiff". I would hope we soon see somebody making a strong good quality "closetotheframe" adaptor for Dahon to Brompton and Brompton to Dahon luggage so that peopel who own several folders (or buy and sell different folders) do not have to invest in new luggage for each bike. It is about available space in peopels houses and also about money. To hope for the option to get the Brompton weld-on on Dahons is much to hope for I guess...
Good point about the desire to have a simple/single standard to attach luggage to bikes. This is a problem through the bike world.
The new Dahon Front Truss System do have 2 nice carriers... one the Luggage Carrier and one the Basket are quite nice. My quick math says you can get one or the other everything (from me anyway) for about $90. More for sure than a back rack but not that much more than the Dahon Traveller or Ultimate rear racks. You can sure carry a load with the two together.
There are 3 components to the front system: Truss, Quick Release and Basket or Luggage Carrier.
My personal take on this is that the Truss seems a bit long, though I understand it is long to accommodate for the cables that stick into this area. I definitely think the carriers themselves are really nice however.