Every one of these margaritavilles or panama jacks I have seen have broken seat stays where the rack is welded on. If you wanted to keep the bike you could probably beef up those areas and have it last a long time.
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I put a longer seat pole. Or are you referring to the cargo rack that's welded on? I had bad experiences with the schwin beach cruise bolted on cargo racks. It bends into the spokes.
This cargo rack is rated 33lbs. I put a 1/2" plywood cut to size and extended it 4" past cargo frame support and paint to match and instead of bolts. I drilled holes and attach with zip ties rated at 75lbs. And attached old school milk crate after painting with zip ties too.
Its sturdier than the one I had on my schwinn. Schwinn bikes break. My frame broke in 3 spots on frame. Welding and JBweld so many times. Only got 1,500 miles out of it.
Thanx for telling me. So far so good and I put 42 miles on it yesterday....
Use electrical black zip ties, they do work if you use the right ones. Nuts and bolts will rattle loose eventually even with Loctite.
M
Member 28982
Dent on gas can from previous bike... Handle bars cause when I wrecked.. Dont have pics of it anymore... LoL
