Originally Posted by
acidfast7
To be honest, I've never a bike with IGH without the proper mounting hardware for fenders and a rack.
Very shoddy design if you ask me.
Considering the overall (advanced?) design of the bike: splittable rear stays for belt drive (which was available on the next model up), eyelets for upper rear rack mount, front fork eyelets on dropout and mid fork - perhaps the threaded allen heads were their solution for a lower rear attachment point. Specialized's niche marketing for the Globe line was to get people biking instead of driving - I think a few other Globe models came equipped with fenders, racks and even lights - If I had bought new in 2009 that would have been a good choice.