I guess it's my experience delivering newspapers for several years via bike-and-Wald-basket that informs my opinion. I cringe when I see those little bitty racks supporting a basket that extends 12" on either side of the support foundation. My suspicion is that Wald would never endorse zipties. They want big struts attached at the basket perimeter to the axle where weight load is most stable.
I also agree that a failure of 8-10-12 zipties is remote, but having been through the endo experience twice (landing on head), once from glue failure on a tubular, once from stick in fender, I have learned fear. :-) My comfort level is: basket attached to porteur rack. On Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 3:03:05 PM UTC-5, Mark in Beacon wrote: > > So far I am aware of zero accidents caused by catastrophic zip-tie > failures. Any anecdotal evidence out there on RBW? Whereas there is > evidence of a carbon fork or two breaking bad. For zips to work as an > attachment device for something like a basket to a rack, you need a minimum > of four attachment points, and more is better (which I believe Riv > advocates). As Bill points out, the chances of them all letting go at once > are slim. They are plastic and do have what some might consider an element > of cheese to them, no doubt. You're either good with that, or not. But I > don't think you can really make a safety argument against zip ties applied > with even minimal intelligence--even ones that, unlike the fencing zips I > sometimes use, are not labeled UV resistant. > > On Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 2:36:59 PM UTC-4, Will wrote: >> >> If a steel fork is necessary, well... so is a bullet proof basket >> connection. >> >> -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
