Yes, if you loose the fork crown bolt for some reason and your rack is loaded the only place for it to go is forward/down onto the wheel or onto the ground (depending on the strut length). Both of those have a fully enclosed hole on the fork crown tab though. The Berthoud had a curious feature where the fork crown tab just had a 'U' to house the bolt. With that 'U' it meant that even a loose fork crown bolt and not full removal could result in the rack falling forward.
Lot's of people have used that Berthoud rack w/o problems I'm sure, I did for nearly a year. If you check your hardware pre-ride and add a safety like the Riv toe strap idea I think it's probably good to go. A Canti stud rack like the M-12 seems to have less potential for something going wrong in my opinion. On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Rod Holland <rholland1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tony, > > Do you think the Nitto M-18 or Mark's Rack share this failure mode? > > rod > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/VIG9X1FK9V0/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
