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Chaley
Have been getting my brother mehteh ready for an 8 day bike backing trip down here in NZ.
Brother say you arent allowed to run a front rack with their carbon fork as each fork boss can only take 1kg, so I remade some stays out of 10mm aluminium tube for the aliexpress rack that P clips to the blackburn cargo cages, spreading the weight between all the bolts. One cargo cage will have my cooker and some freeze dry food, the other will have some clothes / down jacket in a dry bag. Rack will hold my tent. So all in way less than the 6kg total. Also did the two top caps and a headset spacer light mount mod.
Rear rack is made of the same 10mm aluminium tube. Used a $15 hand tube bender to get the overall shape, Crimped each end with the bench vice and then filed them round. Two more P clips with the rubber removed. Painted it all black. Boom, ultimate super simple dry bag rear rack. Will hold an 8L drybag with my sleeping bag, and more clothes. This is probably my 3rd iteration of the simple rear rack with the 10mm aluminium tube, they have all held up to some insane MTB trails for days on end, Total cost of the rear rack was like $25 including paint. Weighs in at just 89grams too!