I'm not sure what this concern is about. 3mm of space between the end of a bolt and the tire is plenty as it's not zero. The tire's never going to expand and the crown daruma bolt isn't going to drop. In addition, it is very unlikely that something's going to get caught at the very narrow constriction. This isn't at all like 3mm of space in the wheel well between fender and tire. In fact, I suspect my stay darumas and fender flap mounting bolts probably protrude quite a bit into the wheel well, to no ill effect over thousands of miles. Of course, having stated this, I'll probably have my fenders crumple in some freak accident the next time I ride.
Although the recessed brake nut trick is spiffy, one has to wonder if the relatively small lip on the nut is adequate for holding up an aluminum fender long-term. I suspect that the aluminum fender may crack around that area over time, due to localized stress. On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 12:15:29 PM UTC-7, Andrew Marchant-Shapiro wrote: > > One way you can handle the daruma nut problem is to use a recessed brake > nut instead of the usual nut. You can put the spacers on the outside of > the nut, and the rim on the recessed nut will save you a few mm. You will > need to enlarge the hole in the fender carefully... But I have done this > and it works. I believe that Campy-style seatpost binder bolts also use > the same threading, so if you have one of those around, it could also be > used. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
