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Old 07-22-19 | 04:03 PM
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Originally Posted by adamrice
My wife recently got a Cannondale Quick 5, size small. The bike has disc brakes, and the seatstays have a dogleg that elevates the lower rack mounts above the rear disc. Because the bike is small, the seatstays forward of those rack mounts are practically horizontal.

I'm looking for a rack to mount on this that has a relatively low height. Something that I can hook conventional panniers to (Ortliebs in this case).
The problem you are going to run across is the rack stays are going to have to be extremely long to get them to mate up with the braze-ons on the seatstay. Tubus makes extra long stays and you may still have to just abandon the braze-ons. That's what I had to do with this bike


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I just got a Problem Solver seatpost clamp with a rack mount. The rack is a Tubus Airy which is about an inch shorter than the other racks that Tubus makes. The Fly has about the same height of 355mm. The Salsa Altenator is shorter by 10mm however.
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