We are fans of KLICKfix products. The company offers a range of devices to fix devices: bags, maps, water bottles, locks, etc. on bicycles. As we write guide books (available from us, Cicerone, Amazon and Smashwords) and therefore need to do a lot of exploratory cycling, we find the KLICKfix map holders, a simple perspex clip to be a very good way of attaching a paper map to a bike. If you pop the map in a sealable plastic sachet it is reasonably waterproof as well. On our last trip down the Weser, the first tour of the year after the winter, I assembled the map, plastic cover and clip on the bike. A minute or two later the clip cracked open. I wrote to Rixen & Kaul the makers of the device to enquire whether because we'd stored the clip inside the plastic map cover, plasticiser from the bag had caused some form of stress corrosion cracking. The company replied the same day to tell me that this was unlikely, but that the odd Minimap can be highly stressed as a result of processing and cracks in use. We received a new Minimap clip by Post a day or two later without needing to send in proof of purchase. Well done Rixen & Kaul!
I was also interested to noticed that Rixen & Kaul now do a handlebar bag (PadBag) for an iPad/tablet with a transparent plastic covered drawer to hold the iPad which can be pulled out for reading and navigation. This bag solves a problem that we had been debating about using an iPad/tablet with one of our e-guide books.
KLICKfix products are distributed in the UK by
Greyville Enterprises
GB-WS 14 9TZ Lichfield, phone +44 (0)15 43 / 25 13 28
email: sales@greyville.com
website: www.greyville.com
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Zyro Limited
YO7 3BX Thirsk Business Park, phone +44 (0)1845 521700
email: customer.services@zyro.co.uk
website: www.zyro.co.uk
and in the USA by
United States: VeloFred LLC
New York, phone +1 (0)646 4359805
email: info@velofred.com
website: www.velofred.com.
We have no financial interest in Rixen & Kaul or any of their distributors. We just like the gear.
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