Originally Posted by
Nyah
It happens to peoples' rack bosses. Aluminum is soft. I'll continue leaving it to the experimenters.
Originally Posted by
General Geoff
Never had any issues with my rack bosses over the past decade of heavy rack usage on an aluminum frame. Again, proper torque spec is key. Once it's torqued down with some blue loctite, it's set it and forget it.
The straw grasping is just incredible. I have a rack on an aluminum frame that has been there for 12 years and 25,000 miles. No thread issues. My current aluminum touring bike has 3000 loaded touring miles on it...no issues. My T800 touring bike had 10,000 loaded touring miles on it...no stripped threads. I have several other aluminum bikes and I’ve never stripped a thread in one. Yes, you have to more careful with threading and torque but bicycles don’t need gorillas to tighten bolts on them anyway.