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Old 04-20-11 | 04:05 PM
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Bikes: Surly Krampus, Surly Straggler, Pivot Mach 6, Bike Friday Tikit, Bike Friday Tandem, Santa Cruz Nomad



Originally Posted by Mr Pink57
However companies like Salsa have done this right I think and the front fender/ rack can be fixed with a long bolt and washers.
That's a poor solution. You want the mounting bolts to see a shearing force, where they are strong, rather than a bending moment by cantilevering the rack outboard of the fork and putting washers/spacers to fill the gap. In any hard use that will result in a bent mounting bolt which will eventually fail.

OMM's approach puts the mounting hardware in shear and will work with any disc brake bike [see front rack image below - that rack is going on 7yrs on my LHT]. Some bikes like the Surly Pugsley allow for a hard mount to the frame using alternate braze ons to get around disc rotors [shown above] this works well.

Ultimately you can put racks on a disc brake bike - just be critical of the design as many folks are simply selling slightly tweaked conventional racks with the spacers noted above that are not robust enough for serious use.



BTW - fenders mounted with a spacer on the disc caliper side are fine since the mounting hardware doesn't see significant loads.
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