Telluride to Moab
Bettina Younge and friends ride from Colorado to Utah via the San Juan hut systems:
"We - 7 women with our bikes, 9 Freeload racks (6 rear racks, 5 with panniers; 3 front racks) - biked from Telluride to Moab over 7 days. We were incredibly lucky with mechanical mishaps (none), medical mishaps (2 band-aids), and weather (2hrs of rain the entire week). The racks held up fabulously: we spent a few minutes every night making sure the screws and bolts were tight which turned out to be unnecessary after the 3rd day of tightening them, and we nightly checked the webbing that secured the racks which also eventually became unnecessary unless it had rained. The racks were incredibly versatile and fit our bikes well, whether they were hard-tails, suspension bikes, 26-, or 29-inchers. Best of all, we were able to move racks and panniers easily between bikes to help shift luggage weight from one rider to others as necessary."
"We - 7 women with our bikes, 9 Freeload racks (6 rear racks, 5 with panniers; 3 front racks) - biked from Telluride to Moab over 7 days. We were incredibly lucky with mechanical mishaps (none), medical mishaps (2 band-aids), and weather (2hrs of rain the entire week). The racks held up fabulously: we spent a few minutes every night making sure the screws and bolts were tight which turned out to be unnecessary after the 3rd day of tightening them, and we nightly checked the webbing that secured the racks which also eventually became unnecessary unless it had rained. The racks were incredibly versatile and fit our bikes well, whether they were hard-tails, suspension bikes, 26-, or 29-inchers. Best of all, we were able to move racks and panniers easily between bikes to help shift luggage weight from one rider to others as necessary."