Brynnar asked what the strap is for. It's a "john's irish strap" around the front rack and the bars, supporting the rack as a safety measure.
Rivendell recommends a bit of redundancy on the very remote chance that the center strut of your three-point-attached front rack fails. If the center strut fails, you are virtually guaranteed to over the bars. It's an extraordinarily rare and unlikely thing, but it has happened before, and so Rivendell likes to be cautious. If the center strut fails, the rack will wobble about some, and the strap will catch it, and you'll have an opportunity to fix the situation without going over the bars. Better safe than sorry. Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Monday, June 11, 2018 at 12:49:30 PM UTC-7, ctifusion wrote: > > Great build! What's the strap for? I haven't seen that before. > > Brynnar > Indy > -- 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.
