Re: [RBW] Mounting a rack to rear rack braze-ons or dropout eyelets: does it matter?

2010-06-20 Thread Rene Sterental
I asked Keven before mounting my Nitto R14 rear rack on my Bombadil as I didn't like the look of the rack stays going all the way down to the dropouts. He said it didn't matter, so I run it to the mid seat-stay braze-ons and have had no issues. I've also seen it both ways on RBW employees' bikes a

[RBW] Mounting a rack to rear rack braze-ons or dropout eyelets: does it matter?

2010-06-20 Thread dos.ruedas
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 t