Originally Posted by
Miele Man
That's exactly the type of setup I was wondering about. So it's the racks that have become more solid than the ones made in the early to mid 1980s. That's good to know.
I've never had any experience with flexi racks. My fist set, which I got in the spring of '99 before my first tour, were custom jobs made by Robert Beckman, who used to work with Bruce Gordon until they had some sort of falling out. Unfortunately, those racks were stolen from my home in 2010 along with the Surly LHT they were attached to. The Nitto Big racks were the closest things I could find to replicate what I lost.