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tallsam
Bodgers, lend me your ears.
I've got a front rack on my bike but the bit that connects to the fork crown is in the way of the cantilever cabling. Consequently I had to move the connecting wire over the the rack mount, reducing the link angle and mechanical advantage and thus rendering the brakes basically useless. How do I bodge this so that the connecting cable sits below the rack mount?
My initial solutions:
Arrange the cables so that the little linking plates and vertical cable are offset to one side. Dubious braking performance and a hassle to set up.
Drill a hole through the rack mount, pass the cable through it and set up the cantis as normal. Rack may be weakened.
Switch to V-brakes. But they'd need to work with road levers and 2.1" tyres.
Bonus points for any solution which prevents the link wire from dropping onto the tyre, locking it up and throwing me off the bike, in the event of the cable snapping.
Crap picture attached.