Total speculative brainstorming here: I installed one of the regular mini racks on my clem earlier this year, using a sheldon nut on the back of the crown so that i could space and elevate a fender mount tab as high as possible, but also so that there was no slop/wiggle between the mounting hole and stud diameters. Interestingly, I had to use a thin washer on the front of the crown because there weren't >quite< enough threads on the top strut of the rack. Otherwise it "looked" like it was tightened all the way in at a glance, but the nut was actually bottoming against the last of the threads. A total dimensional coincidence. I could imagine that stud/strut becoming fatigued if left to move and vibrate, and a rider might never know it was an issue because it wouldn't ever loosen up.
That said, i somehow interpreted that the problem was with the ones that mount to the canti studs. No matter what, this is an issue of a user's responsibility to exercise good judgement, and it bothers me to no end that there have been lawsuits over it. -- 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.
