Originally Posted by
cxwrench
You're overthinking this. If those rails can handle a 200lb rider on a not-perfectly-smooth road and survive a clamping force of 12-16nm you can surely hang a 20lb bike by them.
This is interesting, right? A 20lb bike on a 1ft lever (for simplicity) exerts 20 ft-lbs of force, which is like 27 Nms. Seems like that could be a little high for carbon rails? I dunno.