Tubus Tara rack

[Ryan Ray]

It appears that the Tubus Tara rack is designed to be used on the rear eyelet. The one used for fenders stays. After looking around it appears that nearly all low rider racks are designed to be mounted rear of the Axel which is very perplexing to me.

The salsa one looks designed for forward eyeles but requires a double sided low rider boss and mine aren't. I do have double sided mounts right below my canti posts.

The RivNitto one looks mounted on the front and may narrowly miss the fender stay. Anyone mount both fenders and the hub area rack?

Anyone else have luck with the Tara or any other rack mounted correctly? Or better yet, anyone else actually have this problem?

[Steve Palincsar]

On 12/21/2015 04:20 PM, Ryan Ray wrote:

It appears that the Tubus Tara rack is designed to be used on the rear eyelet. The one used for fenders stays. 

Yes, and it includes its own fender mounting eyelet to make up for that.

After looking around it appears that nearly all low rider racks are designed to be mounted rear of the Axel which is very perplexing to me. 

I don't understand.  Why is that perplexing?

Anyone else have luck with the Tara or any other rack mounted correctly? Or better yet, anyone else actually have this problem?

What is the problem, exactly?

Here's mine:

[dougP]

Ryan:

If I understand your question, you are wanting to mount both fenders and a front low rider rack, correct?  If so, in the photo of the Tara on thetouringstore.com website there is an eyelet on the rear side of the Tara for attaching a fender. 

You mention having an eyelet below your canti bosses.  Currently I have a Tubus Duo mounted to that eyelet, with the lower mount via a P-clamp (functional but not elegant).  Also, if your mid fork eyelet doesn't work with the Tara, Tubus has mounting hardware for the Tara that allows mounting without a mid-fork eyelet. 

With some front racks, there are conflicts with the QR and/or front axle if you try to use the forward eyelet. 

dougP

[William deRosset]

Dear Ryan,

A Bruce Gordon rack is designed for the top eyelet. I actually installed a Tara on the top eyelet on my 700C randonneur whenever I needed a low rider until I got the one-off racks designed for it done (it only took six years) , and it worked fine. 

My wife helped Wayne at The Touring Store for a couple of summers when she wasn't teaching creative writing, or I'd have just gotten a BG for this purpose. The Tara works well, and weighs 490g or so. The Tara didn't quite mount level on the front eyelet, which bugged me aesthetically (and the Herse is an object of aesthetic concern to me). If installing a fender, then you could enlarge the Tara bottom mounting hole and use it as the eyebolt cup for a Honjo/Berthoud fender. I eventually saved up and got Mark Nobilette to make my Herse lowrider legs. They got powdercoated last week, and installed over the weekend. Now I'm set to ride to my brevets next year, and I can either rebuild my mid-rider rack for the Allroad, or use the Tara with a mid-fork clamp. 

Best,

Will

William M. deRosset

Fort Collins, CO

[Ryan Ray]

Thanks all,

I just used spacers and the mounts up closer to my canti posts and turned the bars upside down as to not interfere with my brakes. (They actually came like that). The pannier mount bars are now nice and level and I can install/remove the rack without messing with my fenders. The panniers will be a bit higher but that's fine. Just gives me more clearance to use larger bags if I want to.

As for the larger question, I was perplexed because I thought the entire point of having two sets of eyelets was to make it so your fenders and racks were separate.

[dougP]

"The panniers will be a bit higher but that's fine."

I run Ortlieb Back Rollers (the big uns) on my higher mounted Duo with no problem.  I wondered if it would affect handling since so much is made of getting the weight down low.  I can't tell any difference & have had up to 15 lbs per bag up there.  It does give a lot more ground clearance than with the rack in the lower position.

dougP