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I'd be interested to know the same. I used a Wald 137 basket with the agricultural clamps and wished for something more sleek.
I think it'd be ok for really light stuff, but I would want to test it with a 6-pack of beers. Unless that crown strut was rock solid, assembly would lack stiffness to resist the side-to-side forces while riding. Could get real floppy.
I can still see it working if the distance from crown to basket is small, and the strut itself is stiff. You'll gain stiffness points if the fork has a flat face around the brake bolt hole, as the strut will then be well supported against sideways wiggle.
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Update:
Finally got round to getting the wald on my rockhopper using aforementioned bodge. I haven’t tried it out properly yet as I need to pop a new cassette on the bike first, but it feels fairly sturdy. Certainly for carrying the odd pastry/jacket/at the very most a small tent and camping stove. Feel like it’s a bit high though, and I’d need a different crown mounted plate thing to lower it.
Top plate is a placeholder until I either cut off the bent bit, replace with something similar, or just buy a canti mounted rack.
AlexD
Wald basket question.
The bits that you attatch to the handlebars are pretty industrial looking. Assuming the struts are what actually take the weight, could I just bodge a crown strut from a spare off a platform rack? Will that be sturdy enough? (137 with mainly light stuff in it)