Chaps,

We are about to embark on a six week tour in France and I have just seen these posts about broken racks which rather put a fly in the ointment. I have spoken to Krazy Horse and they contacted the factory to ask what the weight limit is for luggage racks. The answer is that the factory say that the CX racks have been tested up to 25KG and do not recommend going over 30KG.

I have looked into how much luggage I could carry within the 30KG limit for the luggage rack suggested by the factory. To put it mildly the answer is extremely disappointing.

We have done a lot of long distance touring in France, Spain and Italy over the years covering up to 4,000 miles in a six week trip. For all of these trips we have used a 140 litre suitcase that was an effort to pick up and load onto the luggage rack. I never weighed it but I reckon it was probably over 50KG.

To get down to the 30KG limit we are going to have to manage with a case that is only 50 litres capacity and not even completely fill that. The case is a lightweight one and weighs just over 3KG so we are left with 27KG of gear.

For our forthcoming trip we are left with just over a third of the luggage capacity/volume and about half of the weight that we have previously carried on our Plus 4 and Roadster. It’s going to be somewhat of a struggle to put it mildly. What makes this worse is that the limit appears to be in place because of a poorly manufactured bracket.

One more thing. My rack also has sidescreen storage on it. I have weighed two sidescreens in their bag and that weighs just over 10KG. So, if I use that then I have only 17KG for gear.

I think MMC need to address this sooner rather than later.

Best regards,

John

John R Marchant
Plus Four JT10MOG "Florence"