'Ingenious rack'
'Thanks'
'Design it yourself?'
'Yeah'
'I'm impressed.'
The entirety of the conversation I had with a fellow commuter near Newington Butts. The bike in question was a deep shiny maroon with chromed lugs. Because the rider was a tall chap, it was of double top-tube design, with double seat stays. The rack was an integrated one, colour coded with the rest of the frame, brazed to the lower seat stays, coming around the higher ones to form a rectangle of narrow tubing with semi-circular ends and wires gridded across. There was an extra pair of rack stays brazed to the rear dropouts. Very stylish and distinctive.