The mechanical advantage on the strut side is that any beam's bending stiffness is proportional to the inverse of the cube of its length. Take any beam of any material, cut it in half, and it becomes 8 times stiffer in bending.
I think it looks way better too, but that's just an opinion. On Jun 20, 2:41 pm, "dos.ruedas" <rhizomic.upris...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've had the Toprack on my Quickbeam setup with the long struts > running to the dropout eyelets (where I also have fenders hooked into) > for a while now, but I somehow just noticed that there are of course > rack braze-ons on the seat stays. Is there any mechanical advantage to > mounting the struts to the braze-ons rather than the eyelets, or > should I not worry about messing with cutting and filing the struts > and all that business? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
