Originally Posted by
billytwosheds
This looks like a nice setup. It's a little hard to tell from the photo but is the front rack mounted to braze ons? The seatpost position looks a little odd (maybe backward, or nosed down?), but overall it looks like a good ride.
Having a good lighting setup would be important with so little natural light this time of year up there!
Thank you!
The front rack is original to the bike, it is mounted to braze-ons. It has threaded holes in the side of the alloy crown of the fork and braze-ons on the fork legs.
The saddle is an Ideale 59 "Duralumin" with alloy rails, which has an odd saddle clamp design permitting very little horizontal adjustment. It feels good.
I unfortunately do not have the original front light to the bike, using a headtorch at the moment. I'm in the process of building a 12v lighting system utilizing the original taillight with 1.2w 12v led bulb and a custom front light using a GU5.3 5w led spotlight with an excellent uniform beam.