Originally Posted by
indyfabz
1. Is Beckman still making gear? Last time I looked, his stuff was ridiculously expensive. My set of racks and four panniers was over $900–back in 1998. Great stuff.
His website is still up:
Robert Beckman Designs - Home
It is a fun read if nothing else. I’ve used his bags on two one week GDMBR tours and am extremely happy with them. The first week was part of an ACA tour. There were 13 of us and, as I recall, 3 people had various pannier mounting problems which were solved. All were Ortliebs. The bags I have are not particularly light.
I think I once found that beckman makes this adapter for other racks:
Photo also shows how his mounting system works. It is very secure.
Other than walking maybe 25 yards once because the low riders were too low for some truck ruts, I never felt disadvantaged by this setup off road.