I am glad to hear you survived the accident. I had something similar with a fully loaded porteur rack with Wald basket break at the springboard. I was lucky and stayed upright as my bike was like a plow. Then I saw a trick on the Riv site of putting a toe strap around the rack and the head tube. This worked great when the springboard broke a second time and the strapped held it in place. At that point I got rid of both my porteur racks.
As for your new build, I see you are using a single ring, are you going with nine in the back? Second question, are you going to use a chain keeper to minimize any chain drops of the front? Looking forward to seeing your final build. -- 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.