Peter M I don't believe so. Well designed front racks of that kind are designed to hang the weight at the dropout, which hangs the weight off the wheels. This conceptual lightweight flexy carbon bike would not be something I'd use with 80lbs of touring gear. I'm thinking of a usage pattern like the cyclotourists.
On Monday, July 28, 2014 10:42:00 AM UTC-7, Peter M wrote: > > But you would need a non CF fork to support that weight right? > On Jul 28, 2014 1:23 PM, "Bill Lindsay" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> 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 >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
