Originally Posted by Mentor58

I've got the HS on the C-dale, and I didn't have any problems mounting a rack. I used band clamps with rubber liner strips. Think if it this way, most of the weight is transfered down into the bolts at the dropouts, so the top mount is really there more to provide stability than to provide load bearing capacity (imho)

Not as pretty as some setups I've seen, but if the bags are on it, you never see it anyhow.

Steve W.