I bought the Tubus Fly Evo rack, and a pair of Panniers from Restrap, to position my heavier stuff a bit lower on the bike.
The rack bolted nicely to the mounting points on the rear dropouts, just above the through axle.
However, the supplied aluminium bar & clamp was so close to the tyre, I decided not to use it.
Instead, I bent up a bracket from a piece of 20x3mm flat aluminium I had under the bench.
Worked well…. Looked great…. Rack nice & level, nothing touching the tyre.
Then I put one of the panniers on 😫….. Shit!! The retention system (hook) is maybe 2mm off the tyre 🤬. Took it all off again.
The whole rack needs to be at least 10mm higher, but I don’t have a mounting point for that on the bike. There is a bracket kit for the Tubus Fly, but it won’t work with the Evo version (only one mounting hole).
I’m hating the Tubus Fly Evo at this point.
I left it a day and re-assessed.
There is a mounting point about 70mm up the seat stay I can use. So I made a couple of brackets out of thin aluminium, utilising the two mounting points and made a new mounting hole for the rack, 20mm higher and set back 5 or 6mm.
This did the trick! And I’m loving the Tubus Fly Evo again 😍. The Pannier bags have good clearance and the rack is still low enough to not impede the seat post bag, yet stop it from ever striking the rear wheel.
I will now make up a proper set of brackets from either a heavier gauge aluminium or thin Stainless steel.
by gregscott31