Fitting My Tubus Tara Front Rack (2 comments)
Our Surly touring bikes haven’t arrived here yet and I’m planning on spending a week cycling around South Korea in a couple of days and wanted to carry the majority of the gear that will be carried on our trip next year as a practice run. However this posed a problem a my current bike (Scott Sub 20) doesn’t have the eyelets for attaching my Tubus Tara front rack to the bike. So I got online and managed to track the distributor of Tubus bike racks here in Seoul (http://www.citybike.co.kr) to see what my options were to find out that there is a option that allows the Tara to be attached without eyelets.
Here are some pics of the Tara front rack attached.
have you used the provided by tubus extra clamps?
if yes, do the longer ones with diameter 25/40mm mentioned in the tubus site as “Mounting set for forks without eyelets, Art. 72200, 25/40mm” fit? I wonder if this diameter is too short.
thnx
b
Hi Bill,
Yes, they fit. I used the above mentioned Art. 72200, 25/40mm clamps shown in the pictures. The were fairly easy to install and did the job fine.
The only issue I had when I used this system for my 5 day ride around Korea was on the first day when the one of the bars popped out of the clamp. I think this was my fault as I wasn’t sure how tight to wind the braces. The answer to this is as tight as you can.
Jared