To further the mechanical advantage string... The load needs to go through the dropout eventually, but, I agree that shortening the relatively small diameter rack stays is probably a good idea. I don't know where the rack bosses are on your seat stays, but if it puts the rack stays at 45 degrees or so to the rack you should be better off. Makes a nice triangle that way...
Angus On Jun 21, 12:37 am, William <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: > The mechanical advantage on the strut side is that any beam's bending > stiffness is proportional to the inverse of the cube of its length. > Take any beam of any material, cut it in half, and it becomes 8 times > stiffer in bending. > > I think it looks way better too, but that's just an opinion. > > On Jun 20, 2:41 pm, "dos.ruedas" <rhizomic.upris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I've had the Toprack on my Quickbeam setup with the long struts > > running to the dropout eyelets (where I also have fenders hooked into) > > for a while now, but I somehow just noticed that there are of course > > rack braze-ons on the seat stays. Is there any mechanical advantage to > > mounting the struts to the braze-ons rather than the eyelets, or > > should I not worry about messing with cutting and filing the struts > > and all that business?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
