What is a seat stay rack mount?
Use these Seat Stay Mounts if your bicycle frame doesn’t have eyelets above the brakes on the seat stays for mounting a rear rack. These stainless steel mounts attach to the upper struts of your rear rack. The Tubus Seat Stay Mounts include 2 long stainless steel brackets that are bent around the seat stays.
What is a seat stay?
Seat Stays The seat stay connects the seat tube to the rear dropout. Most bike frames use two parallel tubes that connect above the rear wheel. This is also the spot on the frame where the rear brake caliper is attached.
What are eyelets on a bike?
-The Seat Stay Eyelets or Braze-ons are used for mounting the upper stays for a rack.
What is an eyelet mount?
Origin-8’s Eyelet Stub Light Mount is an ingenious way to easily mount a light (or other accessory) to any bicycle frame with standard rack/fender eyelets. The Stub is made of light and tough 6061 aluminum tubing with an outside diameter of 26mm and an overall length of 46mm.
Are rear bike racks universal?
Not all rear bike racks work with all bikes so be careful when shopping. For example, if your bike has disc brakes, you need to make sure you choose a model specifically designed to work on disc brakes. Most racks feature stays that attach to braze-on mounts or eyelets near the bottom rear of your frame.
What is the point of dropped seat stays?
Bikes designed to be comfortable yet fast, stiff and light. Bike designers point towards a smaller rear triangle, achieved by dropping the seat stays further down the seat tube, as a way of increasing comfort. When the saddle is pushed down, it flexes the seat post and this, in turn, tries to bend the seat tube.
What is a floating seat stay?
The floating seatstays are a key piece to the new frame, they are made of a low modulus carbon that dampens vibrations. Instead of sending the vibrations to the seatpost they are delivered to the top tube for an impressive reduction of trail noise and an improved ride quality.
How do you install a front rack without eyelets?
P-Clamps aka cushioned metal loop straps, might be the solution you are looking for and can be a alternative to mounting a rear rack to a bike that has no eyelets. Cheap and simple to use, you can find them in most hardware stores.
How do you install a rear rack without eyelets?
If there are no eyelets on your bike then you need to add them to fit a standard bike rack. The best way to go about this is by using “P-clamps”. If you haven’t seen these before, then they are a metal band that fits around a tube, leaving an eyelet protruding to add fixings to.
How do you mount a seat stay on a bicycle?
Use these Seat Stay Mounts if your bicycle frame doesn’t have eyelets above the brakes on the seat stays for mounting a rear rack. These stainless steel mounts attach to the upper struts of your rear rack. The Tubus Seat Stay Mounts include 2 long stainless steel brackets that are bent around the seat stays.
How does a Tubus seat stay Mount work?
The Tubus Seat Stay Mounts include 2 long stainless steel brackets that are bent around the seat stays. The rack mounts in the outer hole and the inner hole is used for clamping to the seat stay.
Where is the seat stay mount on a Tubus Vega?
The rack mounts in the outer hole and the inner hole is used for clamping to the seat stay. By isolating the clamping to the seat stay from the clamping to the rack, these mounts are a very strong and tight fit for mounting the Tubus Vega or other Tubus rear racks.
How do you measure the diameter of a seat stay?
The best place to measure the diameter of the seat stays is above the brake caliper posts. The most accurate way to measure the diameter of your seat stay is to measure the circumference of the tube by wrapping a string or flexible tape measure around the tubing. Take this length, the circumference, and divide it by pi (3.14).