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Originally Posted by Thumper

Nice light. It's good to see Blackburn still thriving after all of these years.

I do miss Eclipse. They made the best small to moderate sized panniers in various sizes, period. Excellent zippers, Scotchlight strips, excellent internal structural plastic, some had zippered side pouches, others had really useful mesh/velcro side pouches, and they had durable and functional spring hardware for attachment to racks. AND...

...they were 100% compatible with Blackburn racks. They even came with perfect little add-on flat metal hooks to place on the lower mount of the rack at the rear braze-on mount. They were sooo excellent.

I still have a couple of Blackburns early products from the eighties. The Flikstand that’s mounted to the down tube. The bent metal rod was moved tight against the tire when parking the bike so the fork wouldn’t turn when leaning the bike against a post. My skinny tired bikes without fenders have one. I also have the Parking Brake, that tied to the front brake cable with a string. You stuck it in the brake lever when parking the bike. Did the same thing as a Flikstand. There are
front and rear racks on various bikes in the stable.