Sorry to resurrect this old thread, but I'm interested to know if anyone has had success mounting a Surly 8-pack rack on a Riv (Sam or Atlantis, specifically). Thanks.
Tom On Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 2:55:23 PM UTC-4, Garth wrote: > > As I recall from some Riv who tried the Surly X-Pack front racks is that > they didn't fit right. The Riv braze-ons are in the wrong place to use the > Surly. You'd need p-clamps, but I'm not sure if it'd still be in the good > position. Hopefully someone else will chime in. > > Yes, the Nitto would work on both but you can't use the Surly mid fork > mounts for the Nitto either, the p-clamps have to be used since they are in > the wrong place for a Nitto. > > So the 2 brands are meant to be direct mounted per their own spec. There > isn't a universal standard for mid fork braze-ons position. Riv is spec'd > for Nitto and Surly itself. > > All this as best I know, I'm sure if something is off it'll be expressed > by someone else. > -- 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.
