Originally Posted by
mconlonx
As long as you take the panniers with you on the bus, will arm fit over the rack? If it's tucked up against the headtube and rack, should be the same stability as the front wheel.
The rack is too wide (side to side) for the arm to reach the head tube. This is a consequence of the fork being quite fat where it narrows to the front dropouts (and the dropouts being at the "back" of the tube instead of in the middle). The bottom rack mounts are cantilevered ~ 20 mm out from the M5 screw hole using spacers, which bothers me a little, although I think this is common.