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(More customer reviews)Coming out of the box the rack looked great. The hardware was sewn into a nice little patch, which makes you feel that some thought has gone into the racks.
If I had been planning to mount the rack on my 1981 Specialized Expedition I would have likely given it 5 stars, as it fit that bike very well. attaching to the mid-fork low-rider bosses and the front fender braze-ons. But that was not the bike I bought the rack for.
I had bought it for my 1985 Santana Arriva. And that bike only has fender braze-ons. The first problem was that the fender braze-ons are too close to the fork for the rack. This was pretty easy to solve by putting a standoff (a nut) between the rack and the braze-on. But it then seemed impossible to attach the clamp that Jannd supplied to the rack. The screws were too short. I gave up for a while and thought about just using Blackburn low-riders, but my panniers would not work on those, and I really needed the extra room that a front self would give me, so I went to the hardware store.
With $3.00 worth of U-bolts and another $5.00 worth of nuts, caps and stand-offs I had a solution.
I cut up an old inner tube and put the around the u-bolt (old low-rider rack hardware is what I really needed), and the plate screwed that on. Then I attached the rack to one of the bolts from the u-bolt. Tightening it between a nut and a cap.
It is likely that this was over kill and I might have been able to just use a longer screw and a stand off along with the clamp that Jannd supplied, but it is on and is very sturdy now and I am happy. At least until I have to take it off.
Note: The rack worked perfectly on a 74 day tour of Europe. Having the extra space that the rack gave us was a god send on our tandem.
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