I'm still a little bit confused. The traditional method of attaching this
rack is with the threaded rod extending all of the way through the fork
crown to be secured with a traditional nyloc nut on the back of the crown,
as is visible here
You actually could salvage it but the cost to do so would be pretty high,
if your bike has fork crown top bolts, that is. See the threaded holes on
the side, I assume they are the same as on all Nitto racks. You would have
to buy 2 rods and 2 bolt/nuts, then attach the rack to the 2 bolts on
I vote for retiring that rack and setting up a new rack. If that center
strut fails again, your load drops right into your front wheel, locking it
up almost instantly and will put your skull on the ground hard. It
probably won't fail, but I feel the same about repairing a broken front
rack
Thanks you both.
Jeremy, the bolt broke a half-inch beyond the bottom of the nut. There was
no washer or spacer installed between the nut and the fork crown; however
the nut fits perfectly inside the recessed part of the mount and lays flat
against the crown. There is a spacer on the front
A couple of questions:
Where exactly did the threaded rod break? It sounds like it broke just
where the nut tightened against the back of the fork crown?
Another thing I'm wondering about is if you had some kind of spacer to fill
up the fork crown hole in back. Most Riv crowns, including
I might be making things up as I go along, but some (all?) of the Nitto
front racks use an m6 bolt brazed onto the end of a steel tube for the fork
crown stay, so if there's any flexing it will stress the bolt<->bolt head
junction (which has already been weakened by brazing it to the tube.)
