Thule Tour rear(or front) rack- Opinions

[2WheelsNot4]

Just bought one. Wondered if anyone else has fitted this rack to a suss and how they got on with it.

It's just to give me a few more options for carrying shopping. Normally I wear a backpack, but i never carry glass in a backpack and this at least allows me to carry my Rum home

 

[Billybopsbasher]

I've got one for the front and rear. Decent, solidly made bits of kit. Use mine for easy bikepacking with some drybags bungeed atop of both. If you buy the side cages, you can easily use panniers too... I have a pair of old halfords ones that I use occasionally with no issues. Although I am looking at some of the thule shield bags.
If you don't want to scuff your paintwork/decals then using some electrical tape around the frame where they attach will help

 

[Barbara_Reed]

I use old inner tubes to protect paintwork under anything I need to attach, just cut and wrap using double sided sticky tape to keep it in place, so nothing actually gets stuck to the paint.

 

[maynard]

These look good . I wonder if they would work front and back on my Levo . Anyone got photos of full suss eebs with racks ?

 

[Billybopsbasher]

Here's a quick pic of mine when I was trial fitting my racks and drybags for an overnighter.
Excuse the mess in the background

 

[maynard]

Nice. As soon as I've got some spare cash I will be acquiring a nice rack . Cos I've always been a rack man .

 

[H.E.]

I use one in the Winter season, its pretty solid not a lot of woggle even with heavy loads.
Can be used with Panniers but you need to buy the side frames extra and i would not buy the
Thule Panniers they have some issues.

 

[maynard]

These look good . Maybe better than topeak version ?

 

[Billybopsbasher]

I'd say there's probably slightly more adjustability on the thule ones as the topeak slide back and forth to set them level.. The thule ones have the silver bars(3 different lengths for rear so you can really fine tune the level position.(set whatever length silver brace bar you want and then you can slide the clamps also for a perfect fit)
Can't comment as to whether they're better or not though