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Old May 7th 11, 02:12 PM posted to aus.bicycle
Dave Hughes
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Default Mounting a pannier rack on a Trek road bike

On Fri, 06 May 2011 06:12:32 -0700, Travis wrote:

eBay has a zillion people selling P clips in all shapes and sizes and
various materials, in fact it looks like an ordinary piece of generic
hardware so I might swing by Bunnings over the weekend to find out if
they've got them in their nuts and bolts aisle.


That's pretty much what I did several years ago. Saddle clamp (in the
hardware shop sense) of a roughly appropriate side, bent back on itself to
form a P-ish shape, with a bit of old inner tube to stop it rubbing away
the frame. Worked fine for carrying loads of 15kg+ on an old steel MTB.

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