FAQs
Question: Does every tubus carrier fit on any kind of bike?
Answer: Our rear carriers can be mounted on any bike which has no rear suspension. If your bike has a rear suspension, ask your dealer whether a tubus carrier is usable.
If your frame has no eyelets to mount a rear carrier, you will need our
Art. 71500 to mount the carrier with the quick release skewer. For the upper mounting you will need our Art. 71614-71624, which is a clamp set for the seat-stays of your frame. You will find this and many more additional products here.
Our Lowriders TARA and ERGO suit to all forks, which have an eyelet on every lower end of the fork-blade. If your fork has no eyelets in the mid-section of the fork-blade, you will need our LM-1 set (Art. 72100) for standard forksize or LM-BF (Art.72200) for bigforks. You will find these products here.
Our DUO Lowrider suits only to forks, which have eyelets at the lower end of the fork and also at the mid-section of the fork-blades. The eyelets on the mid-section of the fork-blades have to be on the inside and the outside of both blades.
Our SWING suspension carrier doesn't fit on any suspension fork. If your fork has the brake-booster on the rear side of the fork-crown, the SWING will not suit. The range of available forks is so wide, that we are not able to give any advise to which forks the SWING will suit.
Don´t order this product from a mailorder shop before you know that the SWING will perfectly fit on your fork.
Answer: Our rear carriers can be mounted on any bike which has no rear suspension. If your bike has a rear suspension, ask your dealer whether a tubus carrier is usable.
If your frame has no eyelets to mount a rear carrier, you will need our
Art. 71500 to mount the carrier with the quick release skewer. For the upper mounting you will need our Art. 71614-71624, which is a clamp set for the seat-stays of your frame. You will find this and many more additional products here.
Our Lowriders TARA and ERGO suit to all forks, which have an eyelet on every lower end of the fork-blade. If your fork has no eyelets in the mid-section of the fork-blade, you will need our LM-1 set (Art. 72100) for standard forksize or LM-BF (Art.72200) for bigforks. You will find these products here.
Our DUO Lowrider suits only to forks, which have eyelets at the lower end of the fork and also at the mid-section of the fork-blades. The eyelets on the mid-section of the fork-blades have to be on the inside and the outside of both blades.
Our SWING suspension carrier doesn't fit on any suspension fork. If your fork has the brake-booster on the rear side of the fork-crown, the SWING will not suit. The range of available forks is so wide, that we are not able to give any advise to which forks the SWING will suit.
Don´t order this product from a mailorder shop before you know that the SWING will perfectly fit on your fork.
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Answer: You have to change the lower hook, which is originally not wide enough to encompass the 14mm tube of the carriers Tara and DUO.
You need our Art. No.: E110 to change your pannier over to fit perfectly onto our carriers.
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Answer: Every metal material corrodes. Some alloys more, some less. Tubus carriers are made out of steel, because the fatigue is much higher than the fatigue of aluminium. Our stainless steel carriers are extremely resitant against corrosion. Our other carriers are made out of 25CrM4 steel, which doesn`t belong to the family of stainless steels. This steel is mainly used for aircrafts, steel bicycle frames and many products in the automotive industry. It is a very strong material, but it can rust without a protection such as a surface coating or painting. Our non stainless carriers are all coated with a high quality coating. This will not chip off after it has a little damage. If your panniers rub on the surface of the carrier (esp. with very dirty panniers), the coating of the carrier can abrade where the pannier touch the carrier. However, the rust will not penetrate deeply into the material of the carrier. If you would like to restore these spots for aesthetic reasons, use a standard paint in the colour of the carrier (black or silver).
Our Advise: Always use our Art.9000 FIT KIT ,it is a protection foil which protects the surface of the carrier . (The surface must be clean, dry and oil-free before adhesive bonding)
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Answer: No! Please, don't. Our carriers are made of thin-wall steel tubes, which are not suitable to clamp a child seat onto them. We assume no liability for any kind of harm or damage, caused by noncompliance to this rule.
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