Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation. I've never dealt with one of these personally, but what about attaching the rear rack stays to the rail eyelet of the rack?
(I've very curious about this because I was considering using a pletscher on a joe appaloosa, and I like bigger tires, too.) On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 5:44 AM, iamkeith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 6:31:18 PM UTC-7, Patrick Kelly wrote: >> >> How do you mean the pletscher doesn't fit on the clem? What's the >> problem? Photos? >> > > I should have been more clear: It fits the frame, but not a wide tire... > let alone a tire + fender. You can kind of see the issue here, if you > enlarge the picture: > > http://www.rivbike.com/product-p/r15tail.htm > > Basically, the rear struts are mounted too far to the inside, which I hadn't > really noticed before ordering it. Come to think of it, I don't think > I've seen any photos of this rack used with fenders. I think I can gain > enough space by drilling out the rivets and relocating the stays to the > outside. I'm going to wait until my fenders get here before I try, though. > Not a big deal. As I said, I bought this rack to experiment with and modify > anyway. I had originally hoped to change the way the struts attach at the > bottom, in order to change the geometry and shift the deck forward, to take > advantage of the long stays, rather than sit directly above the rear axle. > > I haven't called RBWHQ to ask, but I'll bet that the Longboy eventually gets > re-stocked. Too many long bikes now, not to have it available, the hard > work of designing and prototyping it is already done, and it still shows up > in the Rear Racks diagram on the website: > > http://www.rivbike.com/Racks-s/114.htm -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
