Originally Posted by
JaccoW
33cl (
11 oz) of
9% triple goodness.
That's the GB28 12L bag right? I'm always surprised when I look up the size of the Gilles Berthoud bags. Because they are so short they tend to be very tall and look huge!
Yums! So I could probably fit a party's worth of bottles of it in my Berthoud bag! Enough to pass the time between when the racers leave Liège and when they return! Yeah, the bag is pretty tall, but it's nice for me with my tall stature and consequently large frames. I don't have to peer down to look at the map. In spite of the bag's small footprint, the ENE Ciclo rack doesn't even reach the front of the bag when its backstop is in the leather strap loop on the back of the bag.
Nothing wrong with hollow tubes. Especially in larger diameters tubing can be a lot stronger. Imagine our bikes being made out of thick wire. I don't think that would be all that comfortable.
Ah sorry I must not have been clear. I was expecting the ENE Ciclo to be made of tubing, like the Nitto offerings. I was expressing disappointment that it's just wire - tempered by the fact that it didn't cost a terrible lot of money.
Plans to make my own rack are in the works. I've TIG'd decaleurs from stainless tubing scrap, I reckon I can do the same thing for a rack. Perhaps incorporating a Spence Wolf style booster plate for the centerpull into the mounting hardware.