{"id":415,"date":"2010-12-03T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgc.co\/2010\/12\/review-of-carver-surf-board-rack-for-bikes\/"},"modified":"2010-12-03T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T23:02:00","slug":"review-of-carver-surf-board-rack-for-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singlespeedgoldcoast.com\/2010\/12\/03\/review-of-carver-surf-board-rack-for-bikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Carver Surf Board Rack for Bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"
Instead of asking Shappelle, what I did was buy a Carver Surfboard Rack<\/a>. These fellas attached to your bike with little outrigger wings to cradle your board. A hefty chunk of metal attaches to your seat post via a clamp and the two outriggers slot into that hefty chunk of metal and nip tight with a couple of allen key bolts. My local bike store knocked me $165, which I considered a reasonable amount to pay for a quality piece of kit. I was damn sure I only wanted to pay for this item once so I was keen to get the best on the market. Several people and a great deal of internet trawling had assured me that this rack was the way to go. (There’s some waffle following so if you really want to find out how they ride skip to The Ride below.)<\/p>\n Fitting the Carver Surfboard Rack is pretty easy. The nice man at the store offered to help me should I run into any trouble but really I’d rather sell my tools and buy one of those silly-looking recumbents<\/a> before admitting I had trouble with a task as simple as fitting a Carver Surfboard Rack. Carver provide a little allen key for you to get the job done and in theory it would be tool enough for the job but if you don’t already own a decent 5mm allen key then there’s something wrong. It’s the single most common allen key size for bike stuff. To me bike riding and bike maintenance go hand in hand. I’ve never quite trusted a cyclist who cant do basic maintenance. They’re not real cyclists, just as every cyclist loves coffee, beer and pastries (though not necessarily at the same time), every cyclist should at the very least have a decent set of allen keys, about fifty tyre levers<\/a> and five puncture kits (because you accumulate this stuff right?)<\/p>\n The wings stick out a fair bit so Carver have given you the ability to swing the things around lateral to the bike and click them back into place. This eliminates about 15cms of protrusion from the bike. It takes about 10 seconds per wing to swing them round so it’s a no brainer. Alternately you can leave them out and hang Christmas decorations off them.<\/p>\n