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 On: 2007-10-30
Appears to be solid construction. Delta rates the cargo limit at 40lbs. The weakest points, if you were to overload the rack, would probably be the height adjustment screws; at some amount of weight (likely way over the 40lb limit) I suppose they would shear off. Of course those are also the strong points in terms of fitting to multiple sized/shaped bikes.
Heres how the height adjustment works: you have a tube within a tube. The outer tube of each leg has 3 wholes drilled in the surface about an inch apart vertically (the wholes dont extend through to the wheel facing side). The inner tube (narrower) fits within the outer tube at the bottom of the leg and is ultimately the attachment to the bikes rear dropouts eyelets. The inner tube contains just 1 threaded whole. So you place the screw through one of the outer tubes wholes and into the inner tubes whole giving you 3 height settings. The middle one was about right for my 26" wheel ATB.
It comes with essentially 3 ways to mount the upper part of the rack to your frame. If you have eyelets on your seat stays you can attach to the inside of the eyelets (1) or outside (2). No eyelets? Then they give you 2 wrap-around brackets to attach to your seat stays (3). The instructions mention an available (but not provided) fourth way of attachment using your brake bridge.
Installation instructions werent too bad if you even need them.
Theres a bracket welded to the back of the rack to hang your rear reflector on, which is nice since the rack and/or your cargo will likely block it from view if mounted on the bike frame. However the bracket kind of obstructs the ability to wrap a cargo strap centered around the back of the rack to follow underneath and around to the front--probably wouldnt bother anyone but me anyway.
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