I think practically, it makes no difference at all. The amount of weight that a small front rack has to hold is not enough to test the limits of the strength of the two different triangulation geometries of the two mounting approaches.
Personally I think if the bike already has canti studs, the additional barrels just make the upper fork area look cluttered and are somewhat unnecessary. On non-canti equipped bikes, the barrels make perfect sense. However, on non-canti equipped bikes, the brake bolt hole is not available for a direct bolt-up because there is a caliper brake installed. On those bikes, the upper rack mount has to be a bracket or welded rack tang that bolts to the existing brake caliper bolt. Anton On Saturday, November 8, 2014 1:10:38 AM UTC-5, lungimsam wrote: > > So, I have been looking at a lot of rack pics lately. > > I see some racks have the straight bolt that directly mounts to fork crown > hole. And it also has struts that mount directly to fork barrel braze ons. > NITTO Mini, for example. > Looks like a 5 minute mounting job - must be a luxurious and satisfying > mount! > > But I also see some racks, that have struts that mount to the cantilever > brake braze on studs. Like the NITTO M12. More involved for sure. > > Which type of mounting method is stronger and more durable? To barrels, or > to canti-studs? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
