Originally Posted by
Squeezebox
Ask someone who knows before clamping onto carbon. I've heard bad things about that issue.
Theoretically, yes. But a small rando rack shouldn't really be carrying much weight anyway. My set-up had an 8 liter dry bag lashed to the top with my sleeping pad, bag liner, emergency bivy, and small tarp stuffed in it, maybe 4.5 lbs max. I wouldn't worry too much about clamping that kind of load to a carbon fork with a wide-ish P-clamp.