I am trying to fit an old man mountain rack to my wife’s new Waltly made bike. The fork has the eyelets facing backwards and it has a ridge that makes fitting the pucks hard and they don’t sit nicely anyway (or look good IMO). Is there any reason why fabricating/sourcing a mount from somewhere else to connect it to the eyelet on the fork crown is a bad idea? There are central mount holes in the deck of the rack to fix to.
by Sartorialalmond
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It’s designed to be stable by fitting onto the fork mounts only. No need to bolt through the fork crown.
Different rack but like this:
https://preview.redd.it/skcfl3ld65nf1.png?width=864&format=png&auto=webp&s=a55c6c959ca41f69885ed431f832dbd9298d76d6
the bracket can be bent into the shape you need
A lot of racks come with a angle bracket that can be bent to the correct angle. Your bike shop may have a bin of them. Google for rack mounting bracket brake bridge.
i used a Roberts front axle kit and attached to the fork cage mounts.