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Avantum Brands imports Old Man Mountain racks to the EU since 2005. We ship all over Europe.

Manzanita Cradle handlebar support and bag by Old Man Mountain

The Manzanita Cradle was designed in partnership with Salsa, building on the success of their legendary Salsa Anything Cradle. The Manzanita Cradle is a bracket mounted, rigid handlebar cradle built for all riding conditions from rugged shredpacking to gravel. The design provides ample, unobstructed mounting options for lights, computers, trackers, and more.

Quick and easy mounting.

Manzanita Cradle and handlebar bag by Old Man Mountain

The cradle itself is made of rigid aluminum arms and brackets, with a reinforced nylon cradle. The brackets are compatible with 35mm and 31.8mm handlebars, thanks to the included shims, and the angle of the entire cradle is adjustable simply by rotating the mounting position on the bars. There are six M5 mounting points on the Manzanita Cradle: 64mm-spaced mounts on the arms and 70mm-spaced mounts on the body, designed for lights, GPS devices, and more.

Available with the Manzanita Top Load (12L) or Side Load (9L) bags the Manzanita Cradle is fit for all types of bikes with 31.8 or 35mm handlebars.

2 versions: Top Loading 9L or Side Loading 11L

Top Load 9L

Fits perfectly on drop bar road and gravel bikes.

Side Load 12L

More popular on flat bar mountain bikes.

What Makes the Manzanita Cradle so Special?

100% Waterproof bags

Made from TPU fabric with Hypalon reinforcements, fully welded seams, and a roll top enclosure. You can be fully confident that your gear will remain dry and protected, even if you don’t quite make that stream crossing.

Side or Top Load Bags

Available with an 11L Side Load bag, more popular on flat bar mountain bikes or a 9L Top Load bag that fits perfectly on drop bar road and gravel bikes.

Quick Mount

Simple hooks on the cradle and loops on the bag to hang it on the cradle with ease! You can then let go of the bag to easily strap it securely to the Manzanita Cradle. No overly complicated mounts, just elegant and simple solutions.

All Terrain Ready

The Manzanita Cradle is built to be super secure and is built for whatever riding you want to take on. Whether rowdy shredpacking or traversing around the world, it’s ready for anything.

Accessory Mounts

Handlebar mounting space is precious! The top of the Manzanita Cradle has 6 mounting points for accessories like lights, computers, trackers, and more.

Stretch Pocket

The stretch pocket on the front of the bags keeps snacks and other items easily within reach so you can access what you need without having to stop and open your bag.

Manzanita Cradle

The Most Well Thought-out Handlebar Cradle Available!

Designed in partnership with Salsa Cycles. An Evolution of The Legendary Anything Cradle, adding several new features, including a matching side-load or top-load dry bag, Making it more functional for bikepacking. The top-loading bag has a 9-liter capacity and is designed to fit better between drop bars of gravel or road bikes. The side-loading bag has an 11-liter capacity and is better suited for flat bars and mountain bikes.

Specifications Manzanita Cradle and bags:

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Here are the details of the Manzanita Cradle, the 9 liter Top Load Bag and the 11L Side Load Bag.

Manzanita Cradle
- Rigid aluminum arms
- Reinforced nylon cradle with easy mount bag hooks
- 6 accessory mounting points.
64mm spaced mounts on the cradle arms
70mm spacing on the cradle
- Angle adjustable
- 35mm and 31.8mm compatible

9L Top Load Bag
- 9 Liter capacity
- Fully welded and waterproof construction made from TPU fabric
- Hypalon reinforcements are more abrasion resistant and provide structure to the bags
- PFAS/PFC free materials
- Easy mount loops
- Air Purge valve
- Stretch front pocket
- Roll top enclosure is easy and reliable
- 618g (bag, cradle, and straps)

11L Side Load Bag
- 11 Liter capacity
- Fully welded and waterproof construction made from TPU fabric
- Hypalon reinforcements are more abrasion resistant and provide structure to the bags
- PFAS/PFC free materials
- Easy mount loops
- Air Purge valve
- Stretch front pocket
- Roll top enclosure is easy and reliable
- 638g (bag, cradle, and straps)

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Examples

Examples of Manzanita Cradle and Bags mounted on bikes.

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Client Images

Impala on a Canyon (Germany).

Hemlock bags on a Bombtrack (Spain).

Divide on a Salsa Blackborow (Switzerland).

Divide on a gravel bike (Austria).

Divide+Elkhorn on a Bergamont RD7 (France).

Divide on a Pole Voima (Portugal).

Divide x2 on a Spitzing Evolution (Germany).

Why Old Man Mountain is the best option on the planet

No eyelets?

If your bike frame has no eyelets for mounting of a traditional rack, then your options are suddenly reduced drastically. A seatpost mounted carrier might be a quick fix, but you will be very limited to 8-9 kgs of weight.
Old Man Mountain was born for this back in 1996. The new Divide will fit any bike that does not have eyelets. And in today's world that would be close to 100% of MTB Bikes.

Extremely Compatible

Old Man Mountain will fit almost any bike out there. No matter the wheel size or the axle configuration. There is only 1 Divide, but with so many mounting hardware options, we can fit almost any bike.

Around the World

Whether on an everyday ride in your community or on a life-changing world tour that lasts for months, the Old Man Mountain racks have been tried and tested by users around the world on all kinds of roadtrips and in all kinds of wheather.

Warranty

Old Man Mountain warrants each product it manufactures to be free from defect in material and workmanship for the purpose it was intended to the original purchaser for the reasonable lifetime of the product.

Efficiency

Consider this; if you had a Divide in the rear and a Divide on the front you would be able to carry 64 kgs of gear, while having less than 2kgs of racks. Now that's efficient!

Proprietary Tooling

Each component of a rack (tubes, side-bars, dropouts, top plate) must be held by a jig to allow the welder a solid foundation to weld on and to ensure dimensional precision. Our welding jigs are painstakingly crafted to the exact specifications of each model. This ensures proper alignment and makes our production highly efficient.

Dynamic Load Ratings

You don't ride only straight ahead on a flat surface, so why should your rack be rated only in these conditions? All of our racks are rated for a "dynamic" load. Simply put, we test our racks in actual, real-life conditions. Our load ratings take into account, all forces; up, down, and side-to-side...much like the forces you would encounter during your own trip.

Customer Support

Today, there are many different rear axles on bikes which often makes it hard to know which of our racks is compatible with your bike. And then there are rear suspensions, v-brakes, disc brakes, fat bikes, and a lot of other inventions. We try to stay ahead, so just get in touch with us before you order and together we will figure out the best configuration for your bike.

Versatility

Whether its a SoftRide Beam-equipped Co-Motion Tandem, a fat bike, or a full-suspension GT I-Drive, our brake boss and axle-mounting designs offer new solutions to old problems. Our dealers and customers are always telling us about new and exciting ways our racks solve their gear carrying problems. Our racks can also fit disc-brake equipped bikes, 29" mountain bikes, thru-axle designs and fat bikes.

Materials & Construction

Other rack manufacturers have soiled the perception of aluminum by worrying more about profits than reliability. The result is shoddy welding and the use of sub-par grades of material. The right alloy combined with proper construction makes Aluminum a truly amazing material. It's used by airline manufacturers and land speed race cars to provide ultimate combination of rigidity and light weight. Our rack material is a bomber grade of Aircraft-grade, 6061-T6, tubular aluminum.

More importantly than the material is the quality of the welds. Our welds are second to none and each joint is welded on both sides, resulting in joints that are far superior to other aluminum racks. The light weight of aluminum also allows us to use a much larger wall thickness than tubular steel racks.

Front Suspension Compatible Design

Other front suspension compatible designs hang the weight of the pannier and gear over the crown of the fork (we actually prototyped this design but scrapped it in favor of our current design). This design causes all this extra weight (think of it as adding 14+ kgs of body weight) to compress the suspension over each bump, causing premature wear on the fork and means you'd have to adjust the fork every time you pack up.

Our front suspension design, attaches the weight of all your gear to the wheel which means you don't have to mess with fork adjustment each time you load your gear. We also have a much stiffer design in that our models provide bracing at the bottom of the rack. Our suspension-compatible front racks mount to the axle with our QR Skewer or thru-axle, providing a solid attachment which excellent lateral rigidity.

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Manzanita Cradle handlebar support and bag by Old Man Mountain