Rack attachment without eyelets - question about a product
 

I was out looking at racks today and ran across the Trek Interchange rack for comfort bikes. I can't use this myself, but the lower attachment point caught my attention.

http://thebikerack.com/images/librar...86534_04_m.jpg

The inside of the plastic attachment is rubber lined, and has a velcro strap that attaches it to the seatstay. Seems like a nice option. I know you can buy various metal tabs to do the same thing, but I'm wondering if anyone's seen a product like this sold by itself?

I should have asked the dealer if the feet were available seperately, but didn't think about it at the time.

You need some of the plastic coated, stainless steel "P-clips." Like this, but dipped in plastic. There's another variety that has a rubber liner. You can always use a piece of innertube rubber if you can only find the metal variety. A good bicycle store should carry them, though you will probably have to ask for them. The last time I went to my nearest LBS, they just gave a pair to me. BTW, there are several names for these things, so you may want to take a picture.

On a completely unrelated note. The company I linked to earlier makes stainless steel cable ties!

http://www.cable-accessories.com/CABLETIES.html

How cool is that? I need some of those, though I'm not sure why yet.:)

check out this site: http://www.thetouringstore.com/TUBUS...ONS%20PAGE.htm
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I recently bought the Quick Release mounting system as well as their adapters (P-clips) to mount a rack to my road bike. It is a pain in to have to remove the quick release skewers to change a flat but it do until I get around to making something that I can glue onto the Breezer dropouts with a slot for removing the wheel and skewer.

There is a rack like that made by Axiom, i believe, that is very adjustable and cantilivers itself off the seatstays like that trek rack. We sell it at the bike shop I work at. but without that forward hitch design..

Designed for use on a bike with disc brakes, it is one of the most versatile rack mount systems. And pretty stout compared to some of the other hokey disc brake rack design. let me try to come up with the name of it tomorrow.

You can get rubber coated P-clamps from McMaster-Carr online. www.mcmaster.com just search for "P-Clamp" and get some that match the diameter of the seat stays. Then you can attach virtually any rack to a bike with no threaded inserts or braze-ons.