There are excellent racks that mount to the cantilever posts and to a 
threaded hole in the dropout.  For example:

<https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3559/3697040042_52d51837b1.jpg>

If I had a carbon bike with cantilever brakes, my dropouts are metal.  If I 
had a threaded hole in the dropout, where would my problem be?  The rear 
rack mounts the same way.  If a rack+braking would shear off the canti 
posts, then clydesdales would be shearing off canti posts left and right on 
these bikes, and that's not happening.  Of course if Calfee is sincerely 
saying that they tried and failed, that's one thing.  If they have not 
sincerely tried to solve the problem, though and are saying "no" just to be 
safe, that's something else


On Monday, July 28, 2014 10:13:31 AM UTC-7, Steve Palincsar wrote:
>
> On 07/28/2014 09:43 AM, Matthew J wrote: 
> > One reckons if it were possible they would certainly be offering such 
> > a thing as one of the good things about CF construction is variations 
> > do not take a whole lot of tooling. 
> > 
> > To be clear am talking about the small operation hand built CF stuff, 
> > not the molded Steve mentions above. 
>
> Some of that stuff is clearly excellent; many of us have read the two BQ 
> reviews of the Calfees.  But -- real fans of the "modern look" don't 
> seem to have much respect for the look of a Calfee. It's not all 
> swoopy-Spacelander, it looks like tube and lug construction, so old 
> fashioned, so boring.  And remember what Calfee said about rack mounting 
> points. 
>
>
>

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