{"id":1044,"date":"2020-12-31T11:50:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T17:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2023-06-01T10:25:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T16:25:06","slug":"curt-18085-and-frame-rub-workaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"Curt 18085 and Workaround for Potential Frame Rub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have yet to bring our fat bikes anywhere by car with a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curtmfg.com\/part\/18085\">Curt 18085 bike rack<\/a> we picked up for two reasons:<\/p>\n<p>1. We need to pick up the tensioning strap that takes some bounce out of the rack<br \/>\n2. The rack has padded arms that hold the frame and I&#8217;m concerned about potential frame rub<\/p>\n<p>To fix #1, I&#8217;ll pick up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curtmfg.com\/part\/18050\">Curt&#8217;s recommended 18050 strap<\/a>. For #2, the cheapest workaround may be to identify what part on the bike frame will contact the rack&#8217;s padded arm, clean the bike frame&#8217;s identified area, and then place a frame sticker\/piece of packing tape on the identified frame area before loading it into the rack. Fortunately, I&#8217;ve got a bunch of large frame stickers that I picked up cheap on eBay that I can burn for this task. I&#8217;ll report back on how it works in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>** Update 7-21-2021 ** The frame stickers work great and this rack has been outstanding. Even better, this rack accommodates my Surly Big Dummy, a double-bonus I hadn&#8217;t anticipated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have yet to bring our fat bikes anywhere by car with a new Curt 18085 bike rack we picked up for two reasons: 1. We need to pick up the tensioning strap that takes some bounce out of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=1044\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1556,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}