for what its worth (im assuming that were speaking of the modified
cetma mount from the back of the rack to the fork crown mounts here)
- gregs mount is likely way stiffer than dans. the one potential
weakness of platform racks is yaw (side-to-side rotational sway/flex
with the hub axle as the pivot point) with heavy loads - and if youre
going to brace to fork crown mounts like this, or even, as my rack
does, brace through the fork crown brake mount hole, its best to
triangulate more, which will reduce the racks yawing... *especially*
if youre going to use flimsy little rack straps :)

-joel

At 10:36 -0700 01.01.2007, Doug Van Cleve wrote:
>Greg (is it Greg?),
>
>Did you see Dan Goldenberg's CETMA mod/mount on his P/R:
><<http://www.flickr.com/photos/51799389@N00/tags/porteur/>http://www.flickr.com\
/photos/51799389@N00/tags/porteur/>?
>It looks
>like it would be more rigid than yours and no welding needed. If you
>do go the welding route, seems like you would want it pretty much like
>his. His is also about as low to the fender/wheel as I have seen one
>of them mounted. It seems to me like it would be possible to rig
>something up at the bottom so the CETMA stays were bolted to the
>dropout rather than on the axle/QR, possibly with some kind of spacer
>
>On 12/31/06, gachtem
><<mailto:gachtem%40ucalgary.ca>gachtem@...> wrote:
>> Check out my flickr set at
> >
><http://www.flickr.com/photos/30405788@N00/sets/72157594306633070/>http://www.f\
lickr.com/photos/30405788@N00/sets/72157594306633070/
>for
> > new pictures of my recycling run.
>>
>> I've got some work to do on the Cetma rack, but I like the way it's
>> going. Now I just gotta modify the Nitto Promanade bars so I can use my
> > reverse pull levers. Then I'll be done. Yeah, right. done.

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