Jon, If you want us to help you, you need to help us. People here are going to recommend the Nitto options because many of us have tried the other options and ended up with Nitto. RBW design their bikes with those racks in mind, so generally speaking they are the closest to plug and play--not to say others won't work but those are the racks they sell/use so it makes sense they work the best.
If they are outside your price range, than you need to define a price range for us. you also need to think about whether you need to carry panniers as a full size rack is different from a mini front rack (both in price and mounting options). i'm not going to try and convince you to the value of nitto (you should define value for yourself), but if you want useful input you need to define a few more parameters. as John Stowe points out, there are front racks that account for caliper brakes and mounting through the center hole On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 10:00:38 AM UTC-4, Jon Craig wrote: > > Any front rack that fits easily without a lot of bodging would be fine. > > I usually would want silver, but since my rear rack is a spare Trek that I > had around (which is black), a black front rack would balance it out. > > As far as size, anything! I'm really just trying to gather a list of what > fits, for later purchase. > > A lot of stuff for instance requires using the fork crown hole. Can't, as > it's used on the Sam (by the brake). > > On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 9:57:36 AM UTC-4, Minh wrote: >> >> Jon, >> >> could you be a little more specific on what you're looking for? a small >> rack, a full-size rack? what do you want to carry? a trunk sack? panniers? >> >> all of my experience is with the nitto options, so can't comment on >> alternatives--i'm also a bit of a color matcher, so putting a silver nitto >> rack with a black blackburn wouldn't work for me! >> >> >> On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 9:44:22 AM UTC-4, Jon Craig wrote: >>> >>> "WTB" usually means "Want To Buy." I don't necessarily want to buy one, >>> I just want the info on what has worked for people, for future reference. >>> Budget is totally depleted for now (2x Sams is a lot of money!) >>> >>> On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 9:36:01 AM UTC-4, Howard Hatten wrote: >>>> >>>> Jon >>>> Congratulations on your new bikes. SAMs are really nice bikes. For your >>>> rack needs just post a WTB to the list. This group is very friendly & they >>>> know just what will work for your bike. I'm sure you'll find something in >>>> no time. >>>> Safe riding >>>> >>>> Howard >>>> Livonia Mi >>>> >>> -- 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.
