I believe these are fashioned after the porteur bikes, which used the additional attach points of the fork crown (as opposed to a single brake-bolt mount) to add strength and stability at the rack level for the typically bigger and heavier loads carried on the wider porteur racks.
I have them on my Bombadil, and I wish my Platrack attachment took advantage of these. BB On Jul 7, 10:19 am, "Bill M." <bmenn...@comcast.net> wrote: > How about using a Mark's rack with four point mounting? Should be > more stable than mounting to the center of the fork crown. I have > one of those "other bikes" also, and hacked a four point mount for a > cheap Nashbar rack that stiffened it up write a bit. > > Bill > > On Jul 4, 6:21 pm , Joe Bernard <joerem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > After ogling Geoff's new Hunqapillar for a while, I went over to Rivbike to > > do some more ogling, and discovered an odd detail: The forks are threaded on > > top of the crown so you can mount a rear rack on the front. Um..why? Is > > there a benefit to doing this over mounting a nice front Nitto I'm not aware > > of? > > > Joe Bernard > > Fairfield, CA- 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-bunch@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.
