I've been puzzled by Nitto's and consequently Rivendell's -- yes, absurdly low -- weight limits for racks that are sold as the top in design and quality and price. I see that the Riv product copy instructs users to use the strap right after stating the 2 kg weight limit for this $160 rack. The logical response to this would be to say, "Hell no!" and buy something else.
Now I don't believe that Nitto products are merely precious and expensive and useless bling; I'm very familiar with Nitto stems, seatposts, and bars. But I have chosen Tubus racks because they offer very generous weight limits -- 44 lb for the 12 oz Tubus Fly (chromo; my ss one -- Luna -- is a wee bit heavier and with a slightly lower limit), and I've used several over thousands of miles under sometimes limit-pushing (even exceeding) loads with no problem; short shopping trips, true, but a lot of them and with heavy loads. Of course, for truly expensive rack bling, you could choose the titanium GBP386 Airy at 8 oz and rated for 66 lb! On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 8:45 AM Brian McDermott <brianmarkmcderm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've always thought the "weight limit" on that rack was absurdly low, > especially for such an expensive item. If you put a bag or basket on it, > there's half of the weight capacity taken up already. They just put that > very conservative rating on it so that you don't load it up with 25 lbs of > crap. I would say 15 is safe, and really, who would want that much weight > that high anyway? > > On Friday, February 3, 2023 at 9:36:55 PM UTC-5 zac.te...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Looks like a lot of the sites say 4.4lbs. Are they saying that just to be >> safe? Analog says 15lbs and if you're gonna go over to use a voile strap. >> Has anyone tested this? Anyone pushing that 4.4lb limit regularly? >> >> I want to throw a basket on it for grocery shopping. The soma rack I have >> now attaches to the lower fork mounts but because of the headtube angle the >> rack sits pretty far away from the headtube and a heavy load feels sloppy >> way out there. >> > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgudZJFWaV%3DHtGjKuUmqTT9%2BNd3zxTeWjUejU7k%2BHPFMOw%40mail.gmail.com.
