Originally Posted by
douga
I tried putting the rack on my bike I had last night and realized it needed 2 holes in the frame that weren't there, so I had to drill them. I don't plan on drilling on my new bike, so how do I pick a rack that will fit my new bike?
Go to the hardware store and get a couple of P-clips in the same diameter as your seatstay* tubes. Mount the P-clips to the frame, and the rack to the P-clips.
An example P-clip:
*Seatstays: the frame tubes that extend up from the rear wheel dropouts to the seat tube beneath the saddle.