Marks Rack with no holes

[Ron Mc]

A BOBish bike, not a Rivendell, but Riv content is the Mark's Rack.  

I was facing this, how to attach a front mini-rack to a bike built on a cross frame with no holes of any kind - my saddle bag is full of roadside stuff and I need a place to stuff layers this winter.  

I made it work with Tubus LM-1 clamps to the top of the fork, attaching stays to the back rod-end bolts (only Mark's rack is set up this way); the Paul canti rack mounts, and  L-brackets from McMaster for the front stays.  

Came out great - rock solid.  

I have a black trunk bag on order from Ely at Ruthworks, due at the end of the month.  

Have another green Sackville small trunk I move on and off another bike, but the color does not work.  

But I did determine the front bag will crop the light right in front of the bike, so I'm going to move a light mount to the front stay on the rack

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rbw-owners-bunch/S4O98dttMNs  

[Tim Gavin]

Nicely done, and should be secure.  Those Tubus fork clamps are ugly, but great.

I'm about to put a Mark's rack on my Riv Road with Paul Racers; I will use the bridge to the brake bolt and then 42 cm stays down to the fender eyelet.

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[Ron Mc]

Thanks.  Of course this bike doesn't have a brake bolt or hole on the fork crown.  I thought the Tubus clamps looked better than P-clamps, especially on top of the fork as I used them.  Where I don't like them is lower on the mid of the fork, and with the tapped sockets wide on the outside, they bend the stays outward.  

 I rode it this way for a few weeks until I got my hardware together for the canti mounts.  

 I used the long stays to dropout eyelets with an M-18 on another bike several years and it came out great.  

[Ron Mc]

ps, with the long stays to the dropout eyelet, use these spacers to keep the stays off the fork with slightly longer M5s - they work great.  

http://www.rivbike.com/product-p/rh1-20232.htm  

Note you have to buy two - they're sold as singles rather than pairs.  

I like showing off my light mount

[Ron Mc]

with Ruthworks front bag