How to transport equipment with my 29er?

[Area54]

Fair comment Troy, they can be cranked up very tightly. The Flash is pretty light weight.
Jeff

Yeah, we have a few on the floor atm and had a good look at them, no way I'd be comfortable barrelling down some techy single with downward forces on the seatstay.

Not even sure how a BOB or Extrawheel would go, with the torsional forces they apply to the rear triangle, as the Flash is more of a race frame weight with tubing thickness. I tow my Ibex on a few bikes, super flexy on my old VT dually, moderate on my alloy frames, super stiff on my old steel '88 GT karakoram.

You could use a tandem BOB skewer with a few spacers to get the mount out past the frame dropout.

But I reckon the best option is go lighter with gear (if possible with time and budget contraints) and utilise framebag, seatbag, backpack and handlebar harness system.

[cousinmosquito]

Yeah, we have a few on the floor atm and had a good look at them, no way I'd be comfortable barrelling down some techy single with downward forces on the seatstay.

Not even sure how a BOB or Extrawheel would go, with the torsional forces they apply to the rear triangle, as the Flash is more of a race frame weight with tubing thickness. I tow my Ibex on a few bikes, super flexy on my old VT dually, moderate on my alloy frames, super stiff on my old steel '88 GT karakoram.

You could use a tandem BOB skewer with a few spacers to get the mount out past the frame dropout.

But I reckon the best option is go lighter with gear (if possible with time and budget contraints) and utilise framebag, seatbag, backpack and handlebar harness system.

Flash is race only in my view. A friend broke his flash when a stone jumped upat him in a rock garden while training for one of our gnarlier races over here : (

[cousinmosquito]

Fair comment Troy, they can be cranked up very tightly. The Flash is pretty light weight.
Jeff

To be more precise, it was a carbon Flash. Dunno how strong the alloy ones are.