A2B Rear Pannier Rack

[chuyskywalker]

Looking for one of these, or advice on how to fix on that's been bent off-center from (I assume) a bike fall over. I just can't figure out how to fixture it so it can be bent/forced back into proper shape.

 

[amberwolf]

If the bent part is the pannier supports, where they are "parallelogrammed" to the side of perpendicualr to the actual rack itself, then you can fixture the rack to something, then bolt a clamping plate (wooden panel, block, etc) to the rack or the something so it secures the horizontal tubes in place so they can't move (if they aren't bent), to rebend it back to where it needs to be.

 

[chuyskywalker]

Seems I needed to sleep on it to figure out the right way to clamp it up:


(This is the after picture)

The gap at the green arrow was really large, that piece of tub had been bent "down" which pushed the right side out because of the cross bar.

I put clamps on the orange spots to hold the ally bar securely to the "flat reference" of the rack, and then used a third clamps to pull the arm up into position. Actually ended up going a little bit too far, but it's way better now