Tortec Expedition Bicycle Pannier Rack

Advantages: Versatile, durable, good weight capacity, multiple bike fitment
Disadvantages: Black anodising fades

...What no Fancy title? It's a a rack. It goes on your bicycle. It carries stuff. Enough said. I purchased this particular model because it had a Cycling Plus best buy, and had positive reviews elsewhere. I have a daily 22 mile commute, and need to carry quite a bit of kit, including shower stuff and a change of clothes - my walking rucksack was starting to get rather heavy. The rack comes in silver or black - I bought the black one. The Expedition is a heavy-duty rack, weighing in at 900g with a carrying capacity of 30kg, and comes with a handy bracket for mounting a rear light. The multi-mount fitting system is designed to fit a wide range of bicycles. Out of the box The rack certainly looked the business. It appeared to be well constructed, with tidy wields, good quality anodising, and all screws were stainless...

fred_redwood 18.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Tortec Expedition Rear Rack

Top rack

Advantages: Great rack for the money
Disadvantages: Needs more positioning holes

...The Powerline Power Rack is a perfectly adequate entry level power rack and robust enough for domestic use. I bought this product about 2 years ago and it has taken some serious punishment in my garage gym and it's still as structurally sound as the day I got it. It comes with easy-to-assemble instructions and requires nothing more specialist than an adjustable wrench or a socket set to assemble. When looking for a decent power rack I kept coming back to this one, mainly because of the price and while it is pretty basic in comparison to some of the all-singing-and-dancing commercial alternatives, it still offers the same safety function of its more expensive counterparts. The rack a chin-up bar incorporated in the design, as standard, and has the option of adding a Lat pulley attachment at an additional cost. I personally didn...

bison2210 22.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of Powerline Power Rack

Top notch rack, but roof bars may be better

Advantages: Very quick and easy to use, keeps rear lights visible, very robust
Disadvantages: Increases fuel consumption

...consumption will increase slightly. I found this only to be by about 5-10 miles per gallon but it probably depends on the car. Your rear view will obviously be slightly obstructed but you can see through the bikes quite well. Overall, if you're looking for a bike rack, this should certainly be considered as it is quick to use and very convenient to store as it folds up flat. These may cost slightly more than other racks but thats because you're paying for the quality of a Thule and the convenience of being able to put it on and off so quickly without fiddling around with straps. If I had to buy another rack, Id' buy Thule but I'd go for a roof mounted rack, purely because roof bars can be used to transport more than just bikes. This bike rack can only be used for bikes!...

LJJames 11.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Thule Clipon High 9105

First, the Wonder Brush - Now, THE RACK

Advantages: Allows bottles, nipples, and all accessories to dry in the same place
Disadvantages: Unless emptied, has a tendency to collect water

...So, now you have finished washing all of those bottles with the highly acclaimed Munchkin Deluxe Bottle Brush. Can't just put them in the strainer, right? You could, but they'll most likely tip over, collect water, won't dry completely, etc. You could put them in the dishwasher, which is not a bad idea, normally, as this will generally "sanitize" them, except when you put REALLY dirty dishes in the dishwasher, and then, as you well know, what was on a few dishes is on ALL the dishes. Or, you could drop them on <fanfare> The Munchkin Bottle Drying Rack (and brush set.) NOTE: As mentioned in the previous review, KEEP the nipple brush from the brush set that comes with the rack, and toss the regular brush. It Slices, It Dices, It makes Juliene Fries --- SORRY - Wrong infomercial (actually, that's a quote from Teenage Mutant Ninja...

freyaschild 18.06.2008 · Read review
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Review of Munchkin Bottle Drying Rack & Brush Set

Better than strap-on racks but wont last long

Advantages: Chunky, engineered product
Disadvantages: Alas heavy, bulky to store and readily corrodes

...My parents used to own a big bike shop so I got to try out all sorts of interesting gear (they usually charged me for it, but I guess thats how they stayed in business). When I started needing to move some pricey mountain bikes on motorways and stuff I wanted a real secure rack - in all senses of the word. The strap on racks were just too easy to pinch and the roofrack isnt ideal on the motorway if you are in a hurry (or want to use a multistory carpark, carport, or garage anytime) Many bike trail parking spots also have height restrictions to keep out vans these days, making bikes on the roof a pain. The rack: The Pendle wheel support rack is a modular system made of (mostly) painted steel pieces that can be assembled into a strong and readily lockable construction. Its 'engineered' rather than pretty but once the bikes are...

adrianjfrost 31.08.2005 (05.10.2005) · Read review
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Review of Pendle Wheel Support Bike Racks

Gibraltar the best rack to buy

Advantages: strong, sturdy, simple, easy to set up
Disadvantages: four legs so can be unbalanced

...i have owned the gibraltar road series rack for a couple of years and it is a must buy, providing you have the money. the simplicity of the design makes it easy to move around, to gigs/practices and also helps with space issues. the best feature for me is the flexibility of the ball joints used for connecting toms to the rack, they allow the tom to be at any angle, which for anyone with rack mountable toms need. one drawback i have encountered with the rack is if the floor is uneven the rack does not balance with all legs on the floor, which is extremely annoying and unstable, especially if you have expensive equipment attached to it which could get damaged. To finish on a plus, the hardware is very strong and good longevity, i feel the rack will last me for the rest of my playing career....

m.want163 26.07.2007 · Read review
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Review of Gibraltar Racks Road Series

Don't like racoons...but the book?

Advantages: good for racoon lovers
Disadvantages: I dont like racoons!

...When I was younger I always had my nose in a book. Being the huge animal lover I was (and still am), I often chose to read books about animals. The Animal Ark book series by Lucy Daniels was very popular with me, and one of the more recent titles is Raccoons on the Roof. Although you should never judge a book by its cover, I always do, so it is important that it looks good! The cover to Raccoons on the Roof is quite peculiar. The image of the raccoons themselves, very dark black creatures against a night sky, is quite frightening and hideous. However there is a baby raccoon and it looks so sweet and adorable you forget that you once felt the raccoon was going to fly out and attack you. Instead you find yourself cooing at the baby raccoon, temted to read the book. The book itself is about Mandy Hope, whose parents are vets. A raccoon...

Amy69 06.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Raccoons On The Roof - Lucy Daniels

Let me tell you about Katrina

Advantages: Fact and Fiction horrifically weaved together by a master
Disadvantages: It makes for tragic reading

...The Tin Roof Blowdown - James Lee Burke I never had any intention of reviewing another James Lee Burke / Detective Robicheaux novel. He is a writer I have long admired and I continue to draw much enjoyment from all the Robicheaux books, but in all honesty they are not hugely different from each other and having articulated the reasons I?d enjoyed one I would have been largely repeating myself to review any others. However, that was until I read The Tin Roof Blowdown. In many ways this is the book that Burke has been waiting to write or, to put it another way, the book I?ve been waiting for him to write. You see, Burke builds his Dave Robicheaux stories on the colourful backdrop of Louisiana, the Deep South and New Orleans and these are invested with as much narrative care and attention as the leading characters. Burke has such...

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Review of The Tin Roof Blowdown - James Lee Burke

Tradition Or Is It A Time For Change?

Advantages: Has an inner depth to it, fun, touching and musical
Disadvantages: None that I can think of.

...~~ Fiddler on the Roof ~~ Fiddler on the roof was inspired by Tevye and his daughters, a collection of stories by Sholom Aleichem a man hailed as 'the Jewish Mark Twain'. Producer and director Norman Jewison surprised United Artists with his declaration that he was not Jewish, but even though he was a 'goy' (a non-Jew) he immersed himself into the Jewish culture learning as much as he could. It became a bit of a joke amongst the cast that he would be converting to Judaism. Jewison found the 50 strong cast from around the world and even though the studio were putting pressure on him to hire Zero Mostel who was starring in the Broadway production of Fiddler and playing the role of Tevye, but Jewison stuck to his guns and found his Tevye playing the role in the London production of Fiddler on the Roof, Chaim Topol. There were...

arnoldhenryrufus 25.10.2006 (28.10.2006) · Read review
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Review of Fiddler On The Roof (DVD)

SOME FATHERS DO HAVE 'EM...

Advantages: - please see op -
Disadvantages: - none -

...Fiddler on the Roof is based on a series of short stories entitled 'Tevye and his Daughters' written by Ukranian writer Sholom Aleichem (sometimes referred to as the "Jewish Mark Twain"). The Broadway production opened in September 1964 and more than seven years later, when Norman Jewison's screen version was released, millions around the world were already familiar with the story of Tevye and his family. The story takes place in the small Ukranian village of Anatevka at the turn of the century in czarist Russia. It is an uncertain time. Unrest grips the country - caused by the Pogroms [when Jews were driven en masse from their homes], rising anti-czarist sentiment (which would lead to the Revolution), and the approach of World War One. During his opening monologue [which Tevye (Topol) directs at the audience], the beleaguered...

Tiger_Eyes 18.08.2004 · Read review
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Review of Fiddler On The Roof (DVD)