This was my answer to the mid brazeons that are not on the Atlantis but needed for lowrider racks.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tksleeper/8435670094/in/set-72157626241665432 It's a door jam bracket for like 30 cents a piece. Been on multiple tours and holds tight and stiff. Great option for us and have used the same setup on Hilbournes as well. Kelly On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 1:07:38 PM UTC-5, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > The Hub Area Rack fits best on an eyelet above the fork tip and on > mid-fork braze ons. Will it fit your bike? > > Most current Riv models have fork tips with double eyelets. If you buy a > brand new A Homer Hilsen, Hunqapillar, Cheviut, Hillborne, or Atlantis, you > are going to get double eyelet fork tips. If you buy a Roadeo or a San > Marcos, you'll get single eyelets. > > I have a Hub Area Rack, have had it for a while. It was an early > prototype that I talked them into letting me buy. For what it's worth, I > paid a fair bit more for mine that you guys are paying now, but I share > that as a reason for you to be happy, not as a reason for me to be sad. > Anyhow, now that there are bags for it, I've pulled it back out. Only now > do I realize that my old (2009) Hillborne does not have the upper eyelets > and my old (2010) Hilsen also doesn't have them. Only my Bombadil and my > Gunnar doublespeed has upper eyelets and mid fork braze ons. I wish I > could snap my fingers and have upper eyelets appear on my Hilsen and my > Hillborne so I could run this rack on those bikes as well. Oh well. > > Anyhow, as a workaround, it looks like it would be possible to run the HAR > on the lower eyelets, but it might have a tilt to it. Not the end of the > world but not ideal. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
