Originally Posted by
gugie
This. Go down to the hardware store and grab some steel bar and bend it up like the picture shows. You can try it out of alumium also, but the thicker material might crack when bending. Make sure you protect the paint with some tape before clamping the rack on.
steel plate strap, a marine hardware store might have or could get some in stainless even. Before the plate that passed through the rack bolts and caught the brake mounting hole we got a co-worker to buck up the provisionally mounted rack and hammered the semi formed plate to wrap around the stays. Took a steady hand with s short 4# sledge. Skill I tell you. Never do that in front of a customer.