West Biking 110Lb Capacity Almost Universal Adjustable Bike Cargo Rack Cycling Equipment Stand Footstock Bicycle Luggage Carrier Racks with Reflective Logo

I wish I would have found this 5 years ago when I first got my bike! It was hard to find one of these because I am a large man with a large framed bike (XL framed Trek to be exact). A bit tedious to install, nothing terrible. But I have large hands and had a little trouble with the tighter areas installing some of the bolts. Overall, very, very sturdy! Loaded 3 bags worth of groceries in my saddle bags and this thing didn't budge, bend, or unadjust at all. Definitely a welcomed add-on to my bicycle. Especially because I am somewhere which I don't have a car at the moment.

This rack is incredibly light, and quite sturdy. It's also fantastically designed in such a way that it's quite easy to work with. The rack is so easily adjustable to various bike shapes and sizes, it really is a smart design.it is also incredibly light, surprisingly so. It feels like the lightness of carbon fiber. but with a metallic material.The one downside to this is that the Aluminium alloy they used to build it, while light, is rather soft and quite easy to bend.It has no real tempering, and does not feel like it will withstand any real bending without stress failure. It's not flimsy, but it is, and is bendable by hand.It does not come with the tools in the picture, however mine came with a better set of tools.A pair of Hex keys that fit all of it's bolts, that also have Philips screw drivers on the other end. It also comes with a double ended square wrench.These tools are all you need to get it on the bike, and they're durable enough that they wont quit after just 1 or 2 uses.It comes with some extra bolts, which is nice.For 30$ this rack is a great find, and worth the investment for getting saddlebags onto a hardtail bike.Personally I would dock half a star for the softness of the material, and the feeling like it wont hold up to being worked on. It feels like it can be broken very easily, but this is likely due to the focus on light weight and sturdy engineering.Also the mounting latch for the seat post does not make a solid closure parallel to the ground so it looks awkward latching it closed vertically.

Since I wanted a back rack for my battery, I looked at a few batteries that included a back rack with the purchase of the battery. However, all of the reviews of these racks were pretty bad stating that the racks were flimsy and not very good quality. I also believed that I would have trouble finding a way to mount their included rack onto the bike that I have.So I instead purchased this rack for my battery and with a few alteration I was able to make it work and am much happier with the result. Here is my process for using this rack for my electric bicycle.Photo 1: Here is this rack holding my e-bike battery pack. The battery weighs 11 pounds so the rack will have no trouble with this amount of weight. The description says that it has a 110 pound capacity but really don't think I would trust it with more than 50 pounds safely.When I first got it, I was really surprised at exactly how light this rack is. Of course, it's supposed to be light so that it doesn't weigh down the bicycle. The tubing is very tough and I don't think I could bend it by hand.One of the main things I wondered about was if the rack would end up being level depending on the angle of my seat post. Surprisingly enough, it's very level. Maybe most bicycles use the same angle for their seat posts.Photo 2: On this bike, there was no way to clamp this around the main seat post. At the top of the seat post is the clamp that holds the height of the seat. If I took off this clamp, the seat would fall down. My only choice was to clap this round the smaller tube the seat is mounted on.However, the clamp included in the kit is too large to effectively clamp around this smaller diameter of tube. To solve this, I had a scrap of vinyl tubing that I cut to fill the space. This tubing measured 1 inch outside diameter and 3/4 inch inside diameter. I was able to find this at my local hardware store. With the tubing in place, the clamp on the rack fit nice and tight.Photo 3: The main clamp is a good quality and works very well. The main washer and black plastic insert are already in place on the main clamp. Just be sure you put them directly under the main lever (on the outside of the front clamp face) or the clamp won't work properly.Photo 4: My battery pack was just a bit too long to fit flat down on the rack. This would not have been a problem except that the flat bed of the rack is recessed about 3/16" with the outer ring of metal tubing sticking up around the outside edge.Since the bottom holder of my battery needs to have a flat surface to mount onto, I had to create some spacers out of plastic. They are different thicknesses because my particular battery mount is not exactly flat all the way across. I drilled smaller holes into the rack and used large sheet metal screws. I screwed them in to cut the threads and then removed the screws so that it would be easier to put the screws back in when installing the battery mount.Photo 5: I probably should back up just a bit. You can slide the main bar off the the rack but to do so you have to remove the clip on the end that holds the back reflector. This clip is riveted on so you'll have to drill it out like I did. It would have been a lot easier if they would have used a simple bolt to do this.Photo 6: This is a view of the underside of the rack. When mounting something onto the flat bed of the rack, your screws cannot be too long or they will hit the main bar underneath. You have about 1/2" of extra space for screws to protrude through the bottom of the bed.Photo 7: Originally I had intended to put lock washers under the sheet metal screws here. Unfortunately the screw heads protruded up too far and the battery would not slide into place so I had to discard the lock washers and use liquid thread lock on the machine screw threads instead. You cannot see the third mounting screw because it is located under the black plastic part of the mount. This black plastic piece must be removed to get to the final mounting screw.Photo 8: Here is the battery fully mounted onto the rack. Make sure the battery can easily slide on and off.Photo 9: I did not attach the saddle bag mounts onto the side of the rack but there were way more screws left over than I had expected. I'm thinking that someone included an extra bag of screws by mistake. It's nice that they included the wrenches so no other tools were needed to put this on the bike. At one point I had stripped out one of the screws (or nuts) so having extra screws was nice.Overall I think this rack was well worth the money and will hold up very well.

Installed very easily and has been super solid for me with some pannier bags and grocery shopping. Depending on what you are carring, the 110lb limit may be not enough for you, but for my uses this has been perfect