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Brackets
These are shelving brackets. They are rated to hold 100lbs. The bike and rack together weigh about 37 lbs. It may seem like I'm well within specs, until you begin factoring the G forces encountered hitting pot holes, accelerating, braking, hitting pot holes and going around corners (just to hit another pothole :-)
I suspect the engineers werent thinking of an automotive application when they drew these up :-)
Note the height that I mounted this reative to the brakelight. I wanted to make sure that bus and truck drivers can see my brakelights engage. They don't want to run me over, and I will do anything to help them not run me over!
Brackets
These are shelving brackets. They are rated to hold 100lbs. The bike and rack together weigh about 37 lbs. It may seem like I'm well within specs, until you begin factoring the G forces encountered hitting pot holes, accelerating, braking, hitting pot holes and going around corners (just to hit another pothole :-)
I suspect the engineers werent thinking of an automotive application when they drew these up :-)
Note the height that I mounted this reative to the brakelight. I wanted to make sure that bus and truck drivers can see my brakelights engage. They don't want to run me over, and I will do anything to help them not run me over!