Originally Posted by velotimbe
wsexson-
you cannot mount that front rack in that manner, there will be too much flex and the bolts will either loosen or snap at the mid-blade eyelet.
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voltimbe, can you elaborate? I don't see a mounting problem, in fact the Nashbar rack looks absolutely identical in all respects to my Blackburn (except my Blackburn is silver

) And that's the way I've got my Blackburn mounted.
wsesxon's pic is a jpeg, so maybe there's not enough resolution to see what's the issue....
-- Mark