Originally Posted by
barturtle
Since the Jandd Disc adapters are design to be on the lower eyelet of a rack, they should be plenty strong to handle the type of load they experience at the seat stay. Personally I would have cut off the lower legs of the Wald so they would mount to the eyelet and not get in the way of the skewer, but functionally there's probably not a ton of difference, as it looks like by removing the skewer you can still drop the wheel out normally. You'd probably need a tandem length skewer to clear as it is.
The brake doesn't look like a huge deal, if it's not causing any rubbing. You may be able to get it to route under the Wald arms by trying a longer piece of housing, or maybe route in the other side of the seatpost with a more bendy noodle and housing.
I don't think you've lost any ultimate capacity by having it mounted off level. I would however try to load the heaviest items towards the front and lighter items reward, as I've had problems with an overly rear biased load causing the front to get rather light and squirrely.
As you can see from my latest post, I've forgone the Jandd Adapters in an attempt to find a "sturdier" and "lengthier" solution that will put the entire rig further back on the wheel. To my dismay when I hopped on with the first setup, attached directly to the Jandd adapters, I had some horrific heel-strike. The new setup puts the rig just out of heel reach, but
looks a bit weak -- looks is bold here because I loaded it full of books and it didn't seem to budge. I need to take it out for a loaded ride to see how it holds up -- I also had not considered the effect on the front end of pushing the load so far back. I'm not sure I'll ever have a choice, since the chainstays just seem incredibly short.