Soma Porteur rack to front eyelets

Anyone attached a Soma Porteur rack to a fork with front eyelets (All City Space Horse)? I won't be attaching the rack to the axle.

Can't find a decent pic online except for the shots on the Ocean Air Cycles site that involves grinding the stays.

From what I can see, there a few ways to do it...

• Discard the reverse fork ends and grind the struts to fit.

• Flip the included fork ends and use them to attach to the eyelets, maybe using a spacer.

• ????

Flip the included fork ends and use them to attach to the eyelets, maybe using a spacer.

You can't do that on the Space Horse (and many other bikes, including my Straggler) because of the nice detailing at the end of the fork:

This is why the dude on Ocean Air Cycles is having to grind some metal away.

However, what I've now done for both the above Space Horse and my Straggler is cut some of these to size to enable mounting to eyelets instead of the axle.

http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/thorn-4mm-stainless-steel-carrier-fittings-18cm-long-prod12555/

Quick pic attached for you.

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Cheers. It's what I wanted to hear (kind of). Looks like I'll doing some grinding maybe... or I'll try and find those Thorn fittings in Australia.

could something like these mudguard clips be made to work?

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Probably too flexy under load. Tried making my own version of what @Dom posted out of 2 or 2.5mm steel initially and there was a lot of movement under load.

@Verbs_&_Nouns if the SJS is too pricy to ship, try looking for strips of 4mm stainless steel (local metalworker/ironmonger/metal fabricators cut-offs maybe?) and cut/drill your own?

I'll see how I go. I need to see where the rack sits on the frame before I make a decision. I might be better off grinding the stays down like the Ocean Air Cycles suggestion, or modifying the included fork end stays.

I'm hesitant to have the rack sitting to high, messing with the canti straddle cable as well.