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Old 04-13-14 | 12:43 PM
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Bikes: ‘87 Marinoni SLX Sports Tourer, ‘79 Miyata 912 by Gugificazione

Originally Posted by Distinguished
Do you know of a wider rack I can use for my bike?
It would be pretty easy to make this rack work by bending one of the forward stays to fit the caliper bolt. FWIW, the forward stay on a bike rack carries very little load.

https://ecom1.planetbike.com/4001.html

There were Blackburn racks that had the caliper mounting point (have one on a bike). You might check used bike part emporiums, eBay, etc.

I suspect that your rear dropouts could be drilled and tapped for the heavily loaded vertical rack members. Perhaps that small hole forward of the axle was intended for rack stays?
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