Make more stronger! :) On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 10:55:34 AM UTC-8, Earl Grey wrote: > > Chris, thanks for the photo. Actually I meant the opposite: Attaching both > struts to the outside of the rack, but one to the outside of the fork, and > the other to the inside of the fork. But your solution seems equally > interesting. The photo strangely looks like all the struts are straight, > but you say you used two bent ones? Do you mean the dogleg bend ones? > > Cheers, > > Gernot > > On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 12:05:39 AM UTC+7, Christopher Chen wrote: >> >> You mean like this? >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/lumachrome/8506365178/in/photostream >> >> I think it's actually quite neat, and it makes for more triangles. I like >> more triangles, and all I had were the offset struts. You'll see they're >> back-to-back against each other, so one is biased towards the inside, the >> other towards the outside. This also means (to my amateur mind) that >> there's less loading (laterally, that is) on the strut. >> >> On Monday, February 25, 2013 7:33:27 AM UTC-8, Earl Grey wrote: >>> >>> Since my wife carries a lot more than 4.4lbs in the Wald zip-tied to her >>> Mark's, I'd like to add two extra struts from the back eyelets on the rack >>> to the mid-fork braze-ons. I don't have the extra two struts that the >>> Mark's came with, so I was going to order two 16.5cm bent Nitto struts from >>> Riv (I know I need to order the nuts, too). But looking at a couple of >>> photos of Riv staff bikes (Miesha and Brian), I notice that they used 4 >>> straight struts and attached them both to the outside of the hourglass >>> mounts on the fork. I was imagining attaching the bent struts to the inside >>> part of the hourglass mounts, and would think that might be marginally more >>> rigid/sturdy. >>> >>> Any reason why I shouldn't? Is there not enough room for brake clearance >>> (Tektro 559s)? Does it look ugly? Any other thoughts? What about using the >>> two short straight struts on the rack's rear eyelets, and getting two long >>> straight struts to connect to the dropout eyelets? Has anyone done that? Do >>> you like it? Is it sturdier? >>> >>> I know I should just call Riv, but it's too early there, and too late >>> here (Thailand) to stay up another 2 hours. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Gernot >>> >>>
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