I am looking for new rear rack. I currently have old rack that I got with my first bike (about 20 years ago) so it shows its age.
I considered 2 options:
- aluminum rack
- cheaper option, they are everywhere
- CrMo steel rack
- durability, weight, less probability of corrosion of my CrMo frame.
So if you have some specific suggestions I would like to read them. I was looking at Tubus racks (grand tour and Logo) and some Decathlon options.
I am currently using a tubus vega, but it doesn’t have lower rails for the panniers, i think it works fine with small (basically front) panniers though. There is also racktime, which is tubus’ aluminium line basically. They have some nice racks, used one (addit) for a few years without complaints.*
Tubus is pricey but they also give a very good guarantee.
Not sure about heel drag compensation for any of those, my bike already has kind of a long chainstay to avoid that.
*edit: actually that is not true, i have a complaint: at the spot where the lower pannier mount touches the rack there is some serious shaving of the aluminium going on. I have never put tape on those mount points, which i think is recommended. That was after about 12000km of touring. Other than that i really liked the rack. I hope the tubus will shave less, i am using tape now too.
Yeah I think the heel drag problem is bigger for me because I have the click-system pedals (shimano SPD), so the part on the axle of the pedal is relatively in front of the foot.
I do love products that offer a good guarantee, it ends up really paying off.