Originally Posted by
mstateglfr
Wow, that had to have been a heck of a rabbit hole to go down. Strong work finding a couple of reviews from 13 and 14 years ago.
I had my fun with pushing back on the rack weight rating. In all seriousness, I wouldn't ever try to load 150# onto the rack because that would also likely screw up my wheel.
The rack has lasted years and carried panniers thousands of miles without issue. It has shown to be strong and stiff while being easy to mount to 3 different bikes. The price is great too.
I wouldn't trust it to handle 150#, but I wouldn't trust any rack to handle that weoght. And I wouldn't want to ride with that weight, so this is all quite academic and worthless in reality.
I salute you for your determination, no matter how meaningless it actually is.
Well you seem to get my point. I don’t doubt that the rack is good enough for most applications. So why did Axiom inflate the weight rating to such stupidly high levels? No one…
no one!…is going to carry that much of a load on the rear rack of a bicycle. Like I said above, it’s the equivalent of 2 bags of cement.
As I’ve said before, I suspect that someone got the unit wrong and Axiom just stuck with the claimed capacity even though it is a stupid claim. 70 lbs (which is a bit too high in my opinion) is perfectly adequate for a load limitation. If you are carrying more than that on a rear rack, you are doing something wrong anyway.