I sold the stainless steel Tubus Nova lowrider rack to the guy that bought my Rodriguez so I picked up some Tubus duos from EU.
I ended up using the the upper eyelet on the dropout which makes getting the wheel out of the dropout much easier compared to the Nova (which felt like one of those 3D coffee table puzzles where the tricky solution is extracting the QR from the hub before removing the wheel).
Unfortunately the Elephant’s upper eyelets are so close to dropout that it’s difficult to spin the QR nut since it bangs into the rack tab every revolution. This wouldn’t be as much of a problem if there weren’t lawyer lips but since there are I need to tighten the QR in the dropout and deal with the rack clearance issue.
Adding this to the list of fixes I’m going to ask Cyclefab / Haulin Colin to modify on the frame before repaint.
I also discovered the Tubus pannier loops I had were for 10mm diameter lowriders instead of 14mm. Really wished I added these to my order just in case…they are so cheap… Womp womp
