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

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.

It was very easy to install and comes with extra bolts. It is very sturdy and it has held up well to daily use. I have a Gary Fisher 700CC bike and it fit perfectly.

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.

The description states not good for e-bike or foldable bikes. But I beg to differ I have a foldable e-bike and it fits my bike perfectly for what I want to put on the rack which is a light blanket and my speaker so no weight at all therefore it didn’t matter that I couldn’t mount the side pipes that attach at the tire. I won’t be putting nothing with any type weight back there so I feel no need to worry. Just need to get some bungees to secure the speaker and I’m good. Also it is easy to remove when I want to fold and put in my trunk very convenient! Works perfectly with my bike.

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.

For the price you won't beat this product. It can be installed as a simple quick release clamp on the seat post for easy removal (but keep in mind the weight limit should be kept under 15 pounds). Or you can install the arms and it will handle about 100 pounds. Installation: First use real tools (picture 1) the screws sit into waterproof nuts so turning them is difficult as it should be otherwise the nuts would eventually rattle off. Use a real adjustable wrench and an allen key into your cordless drill and installation becomes very easy. Install all screws with screw head facing outside, all the screws are longer than necessary to make connections easier, but you don't want to catch clothing on the exposed screw lengths. I was also surprised how far up my rear forks the connection needed to be to fit. Reflector came broken, but who cares. You want to install a "real" flashing reflector on the back anyway, the simple passive ones are worthless anyway. I recommend for $12 you get 2 of them at Ascher USB Rechargeable LED Bike Tail Light 2 Pack, Bright Bicycle Rear Cycling Safety Flashlight, 330mah Lithium Battery, 4 Light Mode Options Very lightweight, very sturdy, a great deal.

First off, this is very much a "get what you pay for" bike rack. In all honesty, it is not really any better or worse than some of the higher end, seat post mounted racks. The rack itself is fine. It is lightweight, but seems pretty strong and durable. Unless you are trying to haul more than a 100lbs, this should hold up fine. My deduction of stars comes from two main issues. One is that they give you a parts list in the instructions. I was missing one hex screw and there were no adhesive foam pads. So, that's strike one for me. Fortunately the missing screw seems to be an extra, as I had enough hardware to assemble this, so realistically I would just knock off half a star, but since I can't do that, they lost a whole star for that. I don't care how good customer service is, how quickly they replace missing parts, etc. If I am missing parts, it's already an annoyance. Bam, you lose a star. My second deduction is for the ridiculous hardware they chose to use for this rack. They went with M6 1.0 35 screws. That is a 3.5 cm long screw. If you look at my pictures, where I have mounted this rack to a road bike, you will see that there is only about a 5 - 6 mm distance between the end of the screw and my spokes where the bottom legs of the rack mounts to the frame (see pic). I have moderately expensive wheels on this commuter, and the idea that one bump misaligning my tire and then suddenly ripping my spokes to shreds didn't sit well with me. So, to fix this I had to run to the hardware store and purchase M6 1.0 20 screws (2 cm long) and I went ahead and got some standard nuts (see pic). Strike two! They lost another star for not being forward thinking enough, or too cheap, to provide a set of shorter screws for road bikes. Heck, those 35mm screws would have stuck out on my MTB. Other than that, it takes a lot longer than you think to mount this rack, but it is also not something that you are going to have to do a lot. These racks are a semi-permanent attachment IMO. The elastic bands it came with are kinda cheap. It's just the typical stretchy elastic they use for tennis shoes and stuff. So, that never even went on. You will probably want to invest in some small bungee cords or even a rubber cords system if you want to use the straps. I never do, so this wasn't a huge issue for me. Lastly, no place to really mount a rear tail light on this thing. Mine originally mounted to the seat post, so you may need to find a different light for this rack. It does come with a reflector for the end of the rack, so it wasn't a huge issue. Between that and the cheap elastic cord, there is the other half of a star I mentioned earlier.

5 stars because of warrant and refund policy for defective products. In my experience, the welda under the rectangular rings atop the bar that attaches beneath the seat were brittle and had low shock tolerance. Qhile this produxt was superior to other bike racks I used in the past, they need to stop using zinc to connect the supports to the rectangular ring on top. One time the bike falls over in wind or otherwise and all the welds are compromised. The bolted and clamped portions will maintain integrity, but not the weld forms. I have bought this product several times and will not purchase it again. If the wind blows or your bike falls over, all of the mounts for the support arms beneath the bike basket will snap easily. The product contains a lot of zinc, is very thin except for the bar attached to the seat post, and has selective durability. I had to use a bail of wire for an emergency repair after all of the welds snapped off beneath the rectangular ring. That is a major flaw. The bike swayed multiple times as the welds gave way leading to the bike rack support arms rubbing against tire as the rack rocked while loaded in motion. This could have caused a serious bike accident had I not slowed down repeatedly. I removed the broke products from our bikes and discarded them. Please do not waste your money. I was not paid for this review. This product used to be good. They re-designed it and went cheap to use less and lower quality materials. See pictures attached. That was what was left after the product failed on both of our bikes. I used this product to transport groceries locally to and from home. This product will not safely transport up to 110 lbs if the welds are compromised. You need to look beneath the rack at the rectangular ring if you own this product. Inspect it regularly, especially if the bike endures any shock inducing stresses on the frame that will put the frame through structural stress (tipping while parked, falls, crashes, or riding in rough or bumpy road or trail conditions.) I gave them a 5 because they have a great policy when the product fails.