Burly Piccolo/Panniers Question

[Peter Morgano]

I know some fellow listers have used the Piccolo/Moose Rack, I just don't know if it would work with panniers. I want to pack up the bike for picnics and s24s with the kiddo but don't know if there is any real estate left for panniers once the bike is attached to the rack. I haven't used panniers in about 15 years so not sure just from eyeballing it if there is enough room left on the top of the rack to clip in panniers. I think this is the only solution for loading up as the piccolo sure doesn't leave room for a big saddlebag and I cant do bags up front (just my thing). Thanks to anyone who has any advice. Oh, here is a link to the rack and bike hooked up so you can see what I am left to work with

http://www.bikeman.com/BT3040.html?utm_source=GoogleBase&utm_medium=GoogleBase&utm_campaign=GoogleBase&gclid=CJfu1cvo6r0CFahlOgodZEoAMA

[Bill Lindsay]

Peter

Yes, you can run panniers

Do you have the Piccolo already?  If not, buy mine for cheap.  My kids have outgrown it.  I have two moose racks so you can set up two bikes for one Piccolo

When the Piccolo is on there, you just hang your pannier on there as if the Piccolo wasn't there.  It totally works.  The only consideration is that your hooks are big enough to fit around the fairly chubby tubing of the moose rack.  

Bill

[hsmitham]

Peter,

The one that Bikeman has does not look like it'd work with panniers, this one would. http://penncycle.com/product/burley-tailwind-rack-161502-1.htm?variations=176249&gclid=CNqLyrPr6r0CFcRefgodLF8A7Q

~Hugh

On Friday, April 18, 2014 12:58:25 PM UTC-7, Peter M wrote:

[Peter Morgano]

I do have the piccolo already, sorry bill, free shipping from Amazon is too tempting. UPS prices just went up again, quietly of course. I was gonna go with the Minnehaha panniers from VO, I imagine I could just bend out the hooks on top if the tubing is too fat.  Would love Sackvilles but they look like they need the whole top of the slab to work.

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[Bill Lindsay]

Hugh

The Moose Rack, the one Bikeman has does work with panniers.  The design detail that is hard to see in that photo is that the top rails on the rack platform jig-jag inward about a centimeter for the area where the piccolo clamp lives.  For that reason the piccolo clamp is flush with the outer edge of the platform.  So your pannier just hangs on there.  The hooks have to be spaced correctly and have to be big enough to grab that tubing, but that's it.  

Bill

[Greg J]

I can confirm that the moose rack works with panniers with the piccolo installed. I have been doing this for many years, although my youngest is now on his own bike and likely won't be getting on the piccolo anymore.

Greg

[Eric Daume]

Pics prove it can happen:

http://bikingtoplay.blogspot.com/2013/08/s24o-to-alum-creek-or-so-i-thought.html

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Peter Morgano <uscpet...@gmail.com> wrote:

I know some fellow listers have used the Piccolo/Moose Rack, I just don't know if it would work with panniers. I want to pack up the bike for picnics and s24s with the kiddo but don't know if there is any real estate left for panniers once the bike is attached to the rack. I haven't used panniers in about 15 years so not sure just from eyeballing it if there is enough room left on the top of the rack to clip in panniers. I think this is the only solution for loading up as the piccolo sure doesn't leave room for a big saddlebag and I cant do bags up front (just my thing). Thanks to anyone who has any advice. Oh, here is a link to the rack and bike hooked up so you can see what I am left to work with

http://www.bikeman.com/BT3040.html?utm_source=GoogleBase&utm_medium=GoogleBase&utm_campaign=GoogleBase&gclid=CJfu1cvo6r0CFahlOgodZEoAMA

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[Deacon Patrick]

Awesome, Eric! What a grand outing with the wee ones. Wonderfully done, and improvised for the campsite. Grin.

With abandon,

Patrick

[Anton Tutter]

Hugh,

The Burley Moosehead rack sold by Bikeman does indeed take panniers... we used panniers with ours.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/7516215@N03/5154749279/in/photolist-8Rvrnz-8Kzmpa-8KCBsS-8Kzkre-8KCDVW-8KCCAL-8KzokB-8Kznk8-8KzwsM-8KCm4q-8RythY-8Rym7U-8RvbmH-8Rvdux-8Rvamp-8Rynqw-8RvySR-8Kzqoi-8Rv9cX-8KzsTp-8Rvq9t-cUKnVE-cUKp2A-8Rysbo-9V1Cjz-bXraxo-8RvvFa-8RvoVX-8RvxNt-8Kzpia-8RyDju-8RyBqU-8KTi6m-8KPryX-8KStGq-8KPYzr-8KPaqt-8KT56N-9RHbqu

Anton

[timv1234]

So the general consensus is, yes you can run panniers with the piccolo attached, you have to have clips large enough to fit the beefy tubing, and you have to watch the spacing so you don't interfere with some of the jogs and other parts of the rack.

 

Can you use panniers on the Moose rack without the piccolo attached?  Right where the center pannier clip is, is right where the rack is 'jogged in'.

Anybody ever done that successfully?

 

Thanks,

TV

 

 

 

 

On Friday, April 18, 2014 12:58:25 PM UTC-7, Peter M wrote:

[Eric Daume]

Panniers are no problem without the Picolo attached.

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[Peter Morgano]

thanks to for all the responses. I have some carsick panniers enroute thanks to Ron. Now another question as I look at the bike, will my neo-retros stick out too far? does it matter if the bag touches them?