ID or suggest front rack for Betty Foy?

[D Yat]

Seeking advise on a front rack for a Betty Foy.   I just want to put a basket up front (and not carry low-mounted panniers.)

The photo of the Chevoit on this old blug post has a nice looking front rack that would probably work with the Betty Foy (it has the same or similar front fork lowrider mounts and bottom eyelets).  Can anybody identify it?  It looks similar but a little bigger than a Mark's rack
(http://www.rivbike.com/product-p/r1.htm)

I would like to carry more than the 6-lb weight limit for the Mark's rack.

Thanks for any suggestions

[hsmitham]

D,

That's the Mark's rack and the right one for your application.

Cheers,

~Hugh

[Takashi]

You mean this one?
http://rivbike.tumblr.com/post/117015627924/wills-60cm-cheviot
It looks like a Two Strut Top Rack which Riv used to sell, but it's no longer on Riv website.
It's similar to R-14 rack, but modified so that you can use two pairs of strut.
Maybe with some creativity you can make R-14 to work as a front rack.

This Cheviot:
http://rivbike.tumblr.com/post/116494687519/sams-and-chevs
has Mark's rack on front, and has a smaller basket than Will's cheviot.
So if you are using smaller basket, then Mark's rack would work fine.

Takashi


2015年6月6日土曜日 14時53分44秒 UTC+9 D Yat:

[Hugh Smitham]

Takashi,

That's a good idea. Looking at Will's Cheviot it is a R14 rack. So rather than having a spring board one would need to buy another set of struts and hardware to connect to the rear slotted interface of the R14 rack platform. Larger platform and double struts very nice.

~Hugh

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[Lungimsam]

The NITTO M18 looks like a Mark's rack, but holds much more weight (~17lbs.)

I don't know why since they look identical to me, except the Mark's rack has two more strut tabs and a tab on the front edge of the rack.

 http://www16.ocn.ne.jp/~nitto210/carrier-E.html

[D Yat]

Yes, that is the link to the Cheviot with the front rack I forgot to include in my original post.

Thanks for all the insightful commentary and for giving me ideas.

Since the Cheviot & Betty Foy front fork has attachment points at the midpoint and tip, then the rack might as well use them.

Thanks again.