Originally Posted by
prj71
No kidding. I have a 1up rack and I feel I have been ripped off. Pretty expensive for a bunch of machined aluminum pieces that are bolted together. At best It's a $300 item in my mind. Not the $800 I paid. But what do you do? 1up and Quick R stuff make the best racks out there but they are never on sale and finding one used is next to impossible.
So my experience with my OU is that they used cheap plated bolts through the concave tyre holders and by the time I discovered it, one was irretrievably seized.
Plus it's a two handed op to release the mech - push tyre holding bar to release pressure while holding release trigger the entire time you're retracting the bar holding tyre, while bent over - making it awkward to release the 2nd wheel.
It's annoying. My wife hates the fuker.
Thanks all. It's either the Thule or the Kuat, whichever is lower to lift the bike onto.