James Dieball wrote:

[deletia]

Yakima stipulates a 75 pound weight limit. I thought that that was the limit
of the factory rack. With nominally half the weight on the Q Towers and
clips instead, shouldn't it be able to carry upwards of one hundred pounds?

Yakima rates any rack attached to the factory rack at the factory rack's specs,
I'm sure. They are terribly conservative in their load ratings, probably for
liability reasons.

Remember: engineers routinely derate specs, which means a rack speced at 75 lbs
will most likely carry 100 lbs easily. Probably even 200 lbs, but I'd not take
it out on the highway at 70MPH unless you had a bow and possibly a stern line on
the load, yano?

John Kuthe...