T1 + UD Ultra Durable Pannier Rack and Bag Set

Je fais du vélo sur route sous plusieurs formes : petites sorties hebdomadaires, grosse sortie d'une journée en montagne mais aussi voyage en autonomie.
Je voulais un vélo qui puisse tout faire :
- être équipé de sacoches quand j'en ai besoin
- mais aussi qu'on puisse tout enlever facilement pour avoir un vélo léger pour la montagne.
Le Rack Tailfin me permet ça !

I do bike on the road in several forms: small weekly outings, big exit of a day in mountain but also travel in autonomy.
I wanted a bike that could do anything:
- be equipped with panniers when I need it
- but also that I can remove everything easily to have a light bike for the mountain.
The Tailfin Rack allows me that!

I bought the Ultra Durable Package (Racks & Panniers) for my bike packing trips. I had been looking for a long time for a light option to carry my equipment. Yes, tailfin might cost a bit more, BUT from my point of view, it's worth it. I have two bikes, a Basso lightweight speed bike, and an Orbea e-bike. The Basso uses the axle to mount for the Tailfin rack, the Orbea uses rack mount adaptors, which I'm grateful Tailfin provided although they are not continuing this idea. With the Basso I am on tour, the Orbea I use to go to work.

With the Basso, I was recently in Sweden. The two bags I hardly felt, yes the bike was, of course, heavier, but where I went the rack with the bag followed silently and in a very elegant way. Even a bumpy road, where my water bottle fell off, the rack and the bag didn't move a millimeter. Riding with them, felt like they were not existing, they didn't influence the behavior of the bike. The people who made Taiflin seem to be enthusiasts which a lot of passion for cycling. I could feel the passion in the design and the need to create a satisfying product. It is so easily attached to the bike, so well engineered that I really love them. The Basso and the Tailfin became one unit on the tour.

The Orbea and the Tailfin still need some time to become that unit. Maybe it's because I'm using rack mount adaptors, which are not recommended. Unfortunately, I can not change the axle at the Orbea bike, therefore I am very grateful for the rack mount adaptors, but it feels less stable, although I never lost anything and looking at it, it seems all good. It's just a different behavior while riding the bike, I can feel them, while I'm riding. I do not feel them when riding Basso.

In short, this is the best rack for a lightweight rack I have found and I became a huge fan of Tailfin. I am so looking forward to the AeroPack. Thank you for this wonderful product. The next project could be a rack for the front wheel ..... 😉

Am about a month into using these, and can say that this rack/pannier system ( it truly is a system) is the best I have ever used. Second day out, I took them through the rain, and everything made the trek bone dry, and the ride felt great, the weight distribution is perfect, and had no concerns riding on slick roads.

The tail fin is engineered remarkably well, and although I use this primarily on my commute, I am already planning a 200km+ trip with these. The system is elegant, very easy to get the bags on and off, and honestly the best ride I have ever had with the type of load that I am carrying. Fully loaded bags, and I cannot even tell that they are on the bike (not it in the way you can with traditional racks). No negative sway, no sluggish feel, no wide ugly dangerous turns.

I had some amateur bike club guys ride up to me, and scoff at wanting to put a rack system on my road bike they other day... that was until we hit an incline, and I zipped past them, in the saddle no less, and thought that the encounter of blowing past an amateur bike club (to be fair, 4 middle aged mamils) - with my daily commute load, speaks for how unobtrusive the setup is. I probably have the same negative feed back as anyone else: The inside of the bags should be a brighter color to help with visually seeing your contents, and that once the bags are off the bike, I wish there were an easier way to carry them (they come with shoulder strap, but no where for the strap to go once they are affixed to the bike - other than it dangling, or taking it off). All in all I am stupid happy with these! If you are debating the purchase, jump! I took a chance on them, and haven’t looked back, and my back has thanked me the most for removing an excess of 20+lbs worth of kit from a commuting backpack.