Originally Posted by
AvnerBen
I had twice stay failures with stock aluminum racks. The small tubes are also unreasonably priced. That's why I changed to titanium. I also replaced the easy wheels with something more practical. I'm looking forwards to see how the helix rolls on its own big wheel.
Wow! My current stay solution is described
here. It is OK, but could be better, hence my poking around.
Optimization is obviously a complicated process that commonly yields many solutions. Rolling on the wheel in Helix is obviously good - you reuse the existing structure and are able to roll with not much pain over big obstacles. Originally I was put off by the tiny wheels barely sticking out of the rack for rolling the folded Brompton. However, after I got the side wheels mounted, see
here, I think I have a winner. The folded bike became extremely versatile. I move over buildings, streets, stairs, elevators, etc. operating like people pulling suitcases and becoming indistinguishable from that crowd. My 2 side wheel are also minimod/bikegang, while the 4 other original.