Installing a VO Porteur front rack
02-24-12, 04:20 PM
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Installing a VO Porteur front rack
Thanks to septacycles, I'm waiting for a great deal on the porteur rack. However, my 70's mercier only has 1 eyelet and I'm using it for fenders. The eyelet happens to be be in a spot where coming down from the tange, its not going to fit.
| | < fork
0 < eyelet.
That fork is right in the way of the eyelet. It actually works perfectly for a fender cause the fender hardware is coming from behind. But the tange is coming from the top.
What can my options be? Maybe just slip it through the quick release??
| | < fork
0 < eyelet.
That fork is right in the way of the eyelet. It actually works perfectly for a fender cause the fender hardware is coming from behind. But the tange is coming from the top.
What can my options be? Maybe just slip it through the quick release??
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Hmmm, looks like my ASCII drawing didn't work. Imagine the eyelet in the middle of those 2 bars. 
02-24-12, 04:35 PM
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My bike has only one eyelet and I have fenders and a VO Constructeur rack mounted. I used spacers and a long bolt.
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Spacers!!!!!!! Cool. Ummmm, like washers from a hardware store???
02-24-12, 04:57 PM
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Sure, any type of washers. I don't use the Pretsa valve nuts on my wheels so, like Puget Pounder, I use them for things like this.
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I had a pair of eyelets brazed on for this, it just was not going to reach at all to the fender eyelet location.
