It seems to have been a design goal to make the load ride higher. See the description of the product on the site, or just its name =).
Take it or leave it - Riv/Grant does not seem to be into making lorider racks. Anyway there are already plenty of nice ones out there. wc. On Jul 27, 5:53 pm, MichaelH <mhech...@gmail.com> wrote: > The "new" front rack looks nice but has some design problems, IMHO. > It sits very high on the bike, mainly because it is designed to mount > through the canti studs.. The picture on the web site even shows a > fork with rack braze-ons below the brakes. If it comes with a second > set of attachments, it cold be mounted a good bit lower on the fork, > which would work a lot better. > Michael > > On Jul 27, 6:18 pm, Mike <mjawn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > There are pages up for two new racks on the Rivendell website. Both > > look interesting. > > >http://www.rivbike.com//#product=20-203 > > > and > > >http://www.rivbike.com/products/list/bags_and_racks#product=20-187 > > > --mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---