Instead of running just one strap from the rack tombstone to the handlebars, I always ran a strap from each front corner of my basket to the handlebar / stem junction, and one strap down to the base of the tombstone. Did this with both my Mark's and Nitto 32F racks. I also never overloaded my rack basket combo by more than 2-3 lbs, mostly because I don't really like how the handling changed. Just an empty basket and medium Shopsack alone added up to 2 lbs already.
I couldn't see how just one strap to the tombstone was going to save my bacon if the rack failed on top of a knobby tire. The Riv website still mentions ziptie-ing a basket to the Mark's Rack. How comprehensive / serious is this warning not to use baskets? Is it more of a caution (nudge nudge wink wink, we don't use baskets do we?)??? John -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
