Originally Posted by
Doug64
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I met this German cyclist who had ridden most of the way across Canada on his mountain bike. We camped with him and Canadian rider while riding in BC. He designed theses simple clamps to use for mounting a front rack on his suspension fork.
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That rack looks very much like I would expect from a German engineer, it almost looks like a home made Tara.
My last tour, I met a guy that brought his four panniers from the UK, got off the plane in Toronto with plans to buy a bike. (This was pre-covid when bikes were plentiful.) He bought a used hybrid for $300 CAD. Had to buy a cheap rack that he could attach to the suspension fork with hose clamps. Unfortunately I did not take a photo, the mosquitos were so thick that as soon as I was done cooking supper I wanted to get into my tent.
I met him in Nova Scotia, he planned to go to New York to see his daughter, then give away his bike and fly home.
Someone that goes on a bike tour by flying somewhere on a different continent to buy a cheap used bike, then bikes several thousand miles on it before he flies home again, that is more adventuresome than I am.