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If you fancy something sturdy to drop the place where you bolt on, then have a look at the Fender Flute. You can then rotate the triangles on the rack to better suit where it sits mid-fork.
https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/mudguards/problem-solvers-fender-flute/
Edit: wrong page fail, just about everyone has recommended this already 😅
se1derful
Thanks for input to all of the above. I hastily bid on a pizza rack on Ebay and fitted it today.
Feels great and very sturdy.
Can't help thinking it sits very high on the fork, and worrying about high up weight. Will be using this bike as a tourer next year so will likely have weight on the platform and front panniers as well as on the rear rack.
Would it be really silly to try mounting it in the eyelets above the dropouts and flipping/ modifying a bracket to connect A) to the fork crown as normal or B) to the mid-fork dropouts via some bodged mount?
Am I overthinking it/ crazy/ hoping for the wrong results from this rack?
Should I just get a Blackburn Outpost/ Surly Nice rack/ something actually meant for what I want
Excuse the sloppy photoshop...
EDIT: Drunk brain didn't realise the rack top would sit in the middle of my tyre - please laugh at me