Panniers & shimmy?
12-24-19 | 04:41 PM
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I remember those, if you had any weight on the rack and hit a bump, the clamp holding the rack would slip down the seatstays and jam against the brakes. If you had sidepulls, your brakes were locked up unless you brought some tools with you and nobody carried that set of tools on the bike.
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12-24-19 | 08:00 PM
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Those were added a few years after I worked at the bike shop. There were some after market ones that people could buy as an extra that functioned the same way, but a lot of customers did not buy them when they bought the racks. I sometimes would use a short piece of wire to try to prevent the rack from sliding down, hung the wire from a seatpost clamp bolt or a centerpull brake cable hanger, but they did not look very good cosmetically, so store management frowned upon that.
