There are at least two reasons to add a strap. One is for load support. I think Grant and Keven have both been fans of this. If you imagine an arbitrarily heavy load in a basket you imagine the basket and rack bending down and away from the handlebars. Run an Irish strap from the front edge of the basket to the bars and pull it tight. However tight you pulled it, that's the quantity of force you are unloading from the rack. It couldn't hurt.
The second reason is catastrophe prevention. Riv has seen a few different events where the rack has worked loose, pivoted forward into the tire, and caused the front wheel to lock up, throwing the rider down-on-ground, headfirst and fast. So, run an Irish strap to the rack that will limit it's ability to pivot forward if it becomes detached up top. For me, that's through the tombstone. It couldn't hurt. In all cases try not to do dumb stuff. On Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at 12:56:18 PM UTC-7, David Banzer wrote: > > With the M12, I'd stick to the smaller basket, and even with that use > straps to handlebar for full loads. > David > Chicago > > On Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at 1:58:40 PM UTC-5, Minh wrote: >> >> Hi all, thanks for the input, pretty much what i figured (mostly >> intuition, common sense). i do have a platrack in the mix--and i never >> thought of using the top without the struts, may try that. i should have >> stated that my main question is around the canti-stud mount M12 (which is >> not platrack compatible, otherwise i'd just do that). anyone want to >> change their answer with this in mind? >> >> as far as the weight 'limits' i would be really surprised if people stuck >> to these as they are quite low (4.4lbs for the mark's/mini front?), i'm >> sure that i exceed this everytime i take it out. on my platrack equiped >> rack i've done a car battery, a watermelon, but most times it's just too >> much groceries. >> >> On Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at 9:26:54 AM UTC-4, Lungimsam wrote: >>> >>> And make sure you know the weight limit of your rack. >> >> -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
