I recently finished modifying a '79 Raleigh Superbe and took it on its first shopping trip. Prior to this, my main shopping bike was a '58 Sports with some no-name alloy rack that handles the load just fine. However, after returning home with the usual box holding two gallons of milk, I noticed that the Sunlite Alloy Springer (Pletscher style) rack on the Superbe had bent about half a centimeter to the right. This had already been a concern of mine since I noticed how soft the rack was when I installed it.



So besides that possible quality issue with the Pletscher imitation, I found it to be very inconvenient that there was no place at the bottom of the rack stay to hook the bungee cords. I don't want to use the hole in the dropout because I'll wear away the paint. Also, I planned to add Wald 582 baskets some time in the future but found out that unlike the Pletscher, these rack stays go outwards a lot more which would make it difficult to mount the baskets.

After thinking about it, I have decided to look for a more suitable rack. The following two seem to be good candidates to me:
Wald 215
XLC Alloy

So as you can tell by the bike itself, weight of the rack is not an issue here and I'm wondering if anyone has experience with these - whether there is significant sideways flex when they're loaded up or if there are any other suggestions in terms of other racks in this price range I could consider. I read the reviews but they don't seem very useful to me, which is unusual.

Also, a slightly different topic, but is there anywhere besides Ebay where I can find those classic Raleigh fender reflectors? Does anyone make replacements? Both of my Raleighs are missing them.