Originally Posted by Bikemiker
I bought and installed a cheap rear rack for my commuter a while ago. It works fine, no complaints there, but it's caddywampus lean upsets my commuter chi. When I first installed it I used both of the threaded holes near the dropouts, this seemed logical to me, but it is my first rack. The result was so off-kilter it had to be wrong. I ended up using one of the threaded holes and then on the other side I put a longer screw (from the inside out) through one of the holes for the disc brake mount and tightened it with a locknut. It's better, and like I said functional, but still crooked. Am I dumb? Is my rack dumb? Is the frame dumb?
Hmmm... this doesn't make much sense...
Does the rack itself look bent when it's off the bike?
Do the threaded holes on the dropouts appear to be symmetricly placed?
If so, then putting the rack in the threaded holes ought to work. If not, then you either have a bent bike or a bent rack
