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I’ve done that before and made a right pigs ear of it - I mean, it worked, but it looked pretty messy. This looked like it would need a fair bit of persuading to bend enough to fit, so I wanted to try something that might look a bit neater.
I have ridden it like this now, with a bit of weight on the rack and did some emergency breaking. No fiery death straight away, which is something :-)
Also no annoying rattle, although I’ll still put a slightly longer bolt in when it arrives.
AlexD
I think that looks fine, though I've always preferred just to bend the silver tab itself with some big pliers and adjust the angle and where the kink is, or add another bend making more of an 's' shape If you fiddle with that a bit, you usually find it will clear the straddle in some arrangment or other.