Originally Posted by
Gaz_
Downhill handling, I haven't really noticed it's scarier turning because of the weight, I just find that I go too fast, on twisty welsh lanes. But I do take your point, I am very top heavy. I went for this rack for two reasons, I don't seem to have the little holes for the pannier on the back axle
staehpj1 which is why I went for the disc specific? Am I missing something drastic? And also, this rack was rated to 50kg, the others never seemed to have that information. The engineer in me went, well, the packs 30L, so that's 30kg, the rack takes 50, great, breathing room!
Your bike
does have rack mounts. The red arrow point to the mounting points. The first post in this ****** thread shows your bike with a rack mounted, although it has linear brakes.
Your rack most certainly doesn’t have a 50 kg capacity. That’s probably a mistranslation or misprint. Tubus racks…about the strongest you can get…have a capacity of 40 kg. And it is much stronger than a seatpost type rack. 50 lb is more likely the maximum capacity that rack can handle. Similar racks I’ve seen have a 50 lb or 22kg capacity.
In the interim though, the rack can slide forwards, and I could extend the arms down further, so they're as near to the hub as possible, would this improve some of my problems?
Perhaps but moving the load forwards will probably result in heel strikes. The Trek 4300 has very short chainstays as do most mountain bikes of that era. It makes them work better as mountain bikes.