Gobi Rack and RTT

[Kamalani Mahie]

Wanted to revisit your modification to the Ikamper 2.0 bracket. How's it holding up? Did shaving the I bracket to a flat piece affect its structural integrity? I would imagine that it may bow out a bit if that piece wasn't strong enough.

It's holding up GREAT! It hasn't bowed or anything and I don't imagine it will affect the integrity at all. The stainless steel is very hard and holding up just fine considering there are 8 pieces of steel holding on the tent and everything else. The rivets will not fail. They have a tensile strength of 400+ lbs each, and there are a total of 16 rivets. That's over 6400 lbs tensile strength. I have over 300 lbs of weight up there and it doesn't shift at all. I've done quite a bit of rock crawling and steep and off camber climbs and descents and fast washboard and they have performed flawlessly.