Sunlite Folding Front Bicycle Rack

Hmm, when you find one, you find many. Here’s yet another folding front rack which looks to be exactly the same as the Vincita one I posted earlier, just with different branding. The Sunlite Flip-Top Rack is $63.99.

Vincita folding front bicycle rack

If the price point of that Soma folding front rack wasn’t to your liking, you might be happy to know there is a very similar option available for less than half the price. This Vincita folding bicycle front rack looks like it has the same locking mechanism for the expandable arms.

Soma Folding Front Rack

One of the things I never really had to think about previously with my bikes was how to angle them just right during parking to get it to fit nicely with a rack or other bikes around me. But with a front rack, this maneuver actually becomes quite an issue in NYC pretty often. I sometimes have to lock it really off-center from the rack (leaning heavily on the frame or just floating the bike and hoping gravity plays nicely).

I didn’t even know folding racks like this existed, but here’s an expensive one from Soma called the PORTFOLDER II FRONT RACK. It looks just as sturdy as any other front rack and the folding mechanism seems pretty robust and trustworthy. I’m gonna try this and see how it plays in real-world settings, especially here in NY.