I've mounted my Cascadias, also without safety releases, in a way that I believe (and hope) will prevent endos from obstructing sticks. On the front I have mounted the struts to clamps halfway up the fork legs (I hope soon to get a custom fork that will incorporate eyelets in similar positions) so that, presumably, the arc of the obstructed fender will increase, rather than decrease, the gap between tire and fender underside. This means that the fenders shake a bit more, but that don't bother me none. Or, it bother me jest a little; not as much as a planted face. Also, the Cascadia is rather, by road standards, absurdly short but, with the very high bb (Monocog 29er with extremely fat tires) it still protects the bb area.
On the rear I dispensed with struts altogether by ampumatating a goodly part of the leading edge, so that the fender runs from cs bridge to about a foot aft of the Nelson, where it is attached by zip tie to the Bagman support. Eventually, if the fork works out, I shall have the frame itself modified with (inter alia) mid-stay eyelets, but keep the amputated fender and run struts from where it ends to the stay, not to the dropout. I'm tempted to have the rejuvenated Monocog painted a nice dark blue with cream panels, and install full fluted alum fenders or somesuch, crosshatched bar tape in white and lavender, a steel grey tweed bag on a chromed front rack and purple streamers, but I fear that such fenders would indeed be a more of a liability than an asset. So it will remain primer grey or something with black Cascadias, to match the brutal utilitarian looks of the ugly head tube gusset, violently sloped top tube, upjutter Profile stem, black Salsa Bell Lap cyclocross bars (an inch above saddle! My road bars are 2" below) Truvativ single ring crank, 450 mm black seatpost and 2.6 inch actual Big Apples on the 45 mm drilled Snocat rims, with two parallel, complementary-color rims strips peaking out of the holes. Patrick " the bike is Rivendellian in setup and purpose, even if not in looks" Moore, who does have two remaining of three custom Rivs and loves them. On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Rene Sterental <[email protected]>wrote: > Well... I received the Planet Bike Cascadia 29er fenders and upon opening > the package and inspecting them, there are no safety quick release tabs on > either front or rear fender. In fact, nothing in the instructions refers to > safety releases at all. I positioned the rear one on my Bombadil to see how > it would fit, and while it fits perfectly on the frame, there it seems to be > a narrow (er) space between the 2.0 knobby and the fender, and with the > large width (60mm) of the fender, it would seem that it would be quite easy > for something to get lodged or stuck between the large knobby tire and the > fender, so I guess I'll probably follow along the recommendation of not > doing any serious mountain biking with fenders. I have not installed them > yet, may do so tomorrow as on Sunday I'm planning to try the bike on the > singletrack in China Camp, north of San Francisco. The trails are not too > aggressive but it will be a good test. There is not much debris on those > trails, so I would not be too concerned about any fenders there anyway. > > Seems like the point of concern would not necessarily be how aggressive a > trail is, but rather how much loose stuff is there. > > So, from the perspective of attachment, it seems there is no difference > between the plastic Cascadia 29er fenders and steel Berthroud 60mm wide > fenders. The point to consider would actually be the extended coverage of > the front steel fender, and the risks that would pose to going over drops > (or down sidewalks for that matter...). > > Will think more about the ultimate use I give the Bombadil, and will > probably go with the system that makes it easier to install and remove the > fenders... > > René > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rbw-owners-bunch%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW at [email protected] (505) 227-0523 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
