Originally Posted by
seeker333
Without a hoop over the wheel, the two sides can rotate around the fork legs into the path of the moving wheel.
see this page from this persons journal, scroll down to photo of front wheel and read how it happened to her rack that didnt have a loop. She had to get the wheel replaced as it destroyed a number of spokes.
http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/p...id=261611&v=D1
I saw this about the same time I has posted stuff about putting a front rack on my mtn bike recently, and some people made good suggestions to avoid this happening, then saw this ladies incident. So it can happen.