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
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