Comments about Surly Nice Rack Cromoly:

These racks are simply the best racks on the market from my experience. The front rack comes with a giant bag of hardware that allows you to fit it to most bikes (I only say most because there is an exception to everything). I am sure that anyone who can turn an allen wrench can make this work on their bike. Discs, racks and fenders with lots of weight, no problem.

Comments about Surly Nice Rack Cromoly:

I use this on my Surly LHT, my commuter bike. Instead of carrying my messenger bag on my back, I bungie it to the front rack. It does affect the handling of the bike, putting extra weight on the front fork. Overall, great product!

Comments about Surly Nice Rack Cromoly:

The Surly Rear rack is wider than my old rack and sits my Panniers way further back than the other one. This gives plenty of clearance for pedalling. Attaching the Panniers is very easy and the Surly Rack seems to be tailor made for touring which is what I wanted.
It goes with the Surly Front Rack I have on my Surly LHT. As with the front Rack it appears very stong and made to last!

Comments about Surly Nice Rack Cromoly:

I've been perusing front racks for years. But once I saw Surly's rack I knew I had finally found the rack I needed. Their rack is certainly one of the best, largest, most useful front racks on the market.

I would say it's like having a rear rack on your front wheel, but its actually better. I end up using my front rack more than my rear, because it is so much better.

When they make a rear rack like this front rack, then my bike may finally achieve nirvana.

Comments about Surly Nice Rack Cromoly:

I used both the Front and Rear Nice Racks on a recent tour around Iceland. I got them because they were beefy. I crammed all sorts of stuff on there... they easily held all my camping gear/clothing/food/tools/etc... Probably had more than 30 lbs on my rear rack and then another 20 lbs on my front rack, and I wouldn't have thought twice about adding more weight to them. The other nice thing, and it's subtle, is that the Nice Racks have a solid bar that goes up and over the back tire (closest to where your bike seat is). Hopefully this makes sense... but I was able to use this bar like a handle if I needed to pick up my bike and maneuver it around. The Tubus racks have a "bull horn" style design to the rear rack. Just go look at some interweb pictures you guys will figure out what I mean. Anyway, I used this much more often than I thought and I am convinced that it is a key design element after watching my friend (with Tubus racks) try and pick his bike up to turn around in a tight area. The other nice thing about the Front Nice Rack is that it has a top platform to lash more gear to if you wanted. Again the Tubus don't have this small, but critical, design feature. Surly wins big with this one. Best racks on the planet.

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I have an assortment of touring bikes with most of the top brand racks. Heel clearance for my size 12's is first priority. Note that the bags will sit slightly to the rear of the center beam of this rack where it attaches to the dropout. This is important for non adjustable bags that use two evenly spaced hooks at the top and a bungy hook on the bottom. Typical of the grocery panniers and light duty commuter bags that get a lot more daily use than my Ortlieb touring bags. A lot of racks will center the bag at the central point of the rack, instead of this slight rearward offset that Surly designed in to give better heel clearance. I have these on two bikes and they're effortless to use for camping, commuting, or grocery runs. I have OMM on other bikes and they are good also but my number 2 choice would be Jandd for heel clearance on the rain bikes at a lower cost. I finally sprung for a Cosmo for my latest bike build... my feet are hitting the bags! Bottom line, the Surly is the best designed rear chromo I have in my assortment.

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I've used this rack for over a year on my Long Haul Trucker and it has worked flawlessly. It's a little heavy, but they bike isn't really meant to be light.