This raises a question I've been ponderin' for a while. Does Nitto offer mini-rack style canti-mount struts for the Mark's rack? I've seen some made for the Campee rack but they're likely too short. Here:
http://www.benscycle.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=146_240&products_id=7978 Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com [mailto:rbw-owners- > bu...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Thomas Lynn Skean > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 11:29 AM > To: RBW Owners Bunch > Subject: [RBW] Re: Nitto Mark's Rack Hardware > > The RBW web site has lots of useful information how to install a Mark's Rack. > It has pictures which include all of the hardware the rack originally came > with. > And it has pictures of the rack installed in various ways. > > http://www.rivbike.com/products/show/mark-s-rack-nitto/20-108 > > They also sell spares that you may need, including special Nitto vibration- > resistant strut-attaching nuts/bolts/collars that I've never seen anywhere but > from Nitto. Whether they have any in stock is always a question. > > http://www.rivbike.com/products/show/nitto-rack-hardware/20-077 > http://www.rivbike.com/products/show/nitto-band-clamps/20-016 > > The hardware is not particularly cheap. But the only things I've seen "ready- > to-use" substitutes for in hardware stores are the normal- looking > nuts/bolts/washers that connect the "diving board" to the rack platform and > to the fork crown hole (all metric, which means not very common... and > stainless metric is less so, though my local Ace has > *some*) and the "band clamps", which are sometimes referred to as "P- > clamps" (though even those are hard-ish to find in stainless steel). > > Hope this helps. It's not complicated when you're looking at everything. But I > do find it complicated to talk about in the abstract. > > Good luck! > > Yours, > Thomas Lynn Skean > > On Jan 10, 8:33 pm, Jon Flaxman <jonflax...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Greetings all from snowy Arkansas (!) > > > > The PO of my new-to-me Canti-Rom didn't pack the loose parts carefully > and as such, I am now missing the mounting screws for the Mark's Rack. > > > > Anyone gave some spare parts hanging around, or know of the Home > Depot alternatives? I'm at a disadvantage, as I've never seen one if these > racks so I'm not sure what all is missing. I just know that I have a rack and > no > nuts or spacers or whatever. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners- > bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw- > owners-bunch?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
