Tubus Fly for trunk bag?

[doug peterson]

Has anyone used a Tubus Fly for a trunk bag? I'm thinking of it on my
wife's Atlantis. My concerns are whether it's too narrow at the front
for adequate support and if it can be mounted to the seat stay
eyelets. The only time I've seen one in the flesh was on James'
Nishiki a few weeks ago & it looks really elegant. Plan B is the
Vega.

dougP

[Steve Palincsar]

On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 14:13 -0800, doug peterson wrote:
> Has anyone used a Tubus Fly for a trunk bag?

Peter White's site says of the Fly, "Not suitable for use with top mount
rack packs."

[Horace]

I use an Arkel Tailrider on a Tubus Fly on my Romulus. The Fly is too narrow for most trunk racks, but if you call up Arkel, they'll make a Tailrider with extra-long straps that will enable it to work with the Fly (they'll charge a few bucks more). Additionally, the Tailrider is sufficiently low-profile and stiff to work with the narrow platform of the Fly. I've been happy with this setup, but lately I just throw an Ortleib Front Roller on the rack for the extra capacity and easier access. I don't worry much about aerodynamics.

You can see from the following photo that I was able to mount the Fly to the seatstay eyelet on my Romulus:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7850806@N06/5215665883/

Horace.

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[Michael_S]

Doug, I bought a Fly for the same reason ( beautiful) and returned it
and got the Vega for a rack top bag. The Fly is just too thin on top.
It would work fine for small panniers I think.

~Mike~

[doug peterson]

Thanks for the help, guys. I think we're headed toward Plan B. After
thinking about it, she leaves the bag on the bike all the time so the
rack won't even be seen. Wayne at the Touring Store got back to me
with similar thoughts, and he's the Tubus expert.

dougP

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[Justin August]

Sounds like you're already steering away from it - which I understand.
BUT I just wanted to share that I have a Tubus fly and I use one of
those attachment brackets from a cheaper Sunlight rack to go from the
single mount to mount onto the brake bridge on my Bleriot. Works
really well and is very simple and surprisingly solid. I sometimes
wish I had a larger rack but mostly just wish it was a nice polished
silver instead of black.

-Justin

[PATRICK MOORE]

The Fly is fine for both small and large panniers. I attach everything
from small front touring panniers and a Jannd commuting pannier to
Ortlieb Packers and Dutch Bike style "drape over" panniers (not to
mention home made bucket panniers made from those standard knee-high
plastic kitchen trash cans).

Glad to know that it works less well with a trunk bag since I've
thought of buying one of those -- tho' I expect that, if the trunk bag
had a stiff bottom and some wiggle room for its attachments, it would
work alright.

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[Larry Powers]

I have one ant it is too narror for a trunk bag. 

Larry Powers
 
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