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Old 11-26-14 | 08:37 AM
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Bikes: 1996 Litespeed Classic, 2006 Trek Portland, 2013 Ribble Winter/Audax, 2016 Giant Talon 4

Parlee Cycles can add eyelets to any CF fork. Of course you're without the bike while they have the fork.

Ribble Cycles UK sells a couple of different CF forks with fender eyelets. I own the Deda Black Rain. The eyelets are on the metal dropouts. They seem quite robust. There shouldn't be a problem with the amount of weight you can fit in a handlebar bag. Unless you're carrying around gold bars. Downside is you'll also need a 57mm brake caliper. (I have a Shimano BR-R600 I'll sell if you decide to go this route.)

You're in Colorado, right? There are lots of custom frame builders there who may be able to fabricate a custom rack for you. I'm thinking something sort of inverted from the typical design, bolting behind the brake caliper as usual, but with struts coming up to the bars instead of down to the eyelets. I'd start with Renold Yip of YiPsan Bicycles. He's done quite a bit of innovative and award-winning work in transportation cycling.
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