That's great! I wish my Hilsen had mid fork braze-ons. I was thinking this morning that maybe next year I'll get the Hilsen repainted and some braze-ons like that added.
--mike On May 5, 11:14 am, Marty <mgie...@mac.com> wrote: > I had mounted this Platrack on another bike for a while, and had to cut the > struts, so when it came time to put it on my Bombadil, the struts were too > short to reach the dropouts. Someone else had posted something about > bending the struts to reach the fork eyelets that are used for the > Mini/Marks rack, but since the Bombadil has those nifty mid-fork mounts, I > thought I'd give it a try. Good news is: no strut bending required! I did > have to tweak the mount on the rack itself by a mere couple degrees just to > make it line up perfectly, (using a crescent wrench - kind of like the old > trick to toe-in brake pads on cheap calipers) but I could have simply left > it as is and tightened the bolts to bring it all into alignment. > > Bottom line is it works great, and frees up the dropout for whatever other > junk I'll bolt on someday. And it looks good. And it's lighter. ; ) > > *http://tinyurl.com/7qpxysf* > * > * > Marty > > p.s. Waiting for the Marathon Supremes to show up this week, hence the > naked MA40s. -- 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-bunch@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.
