Dear Steve, On roads, metal fenders, reasonable clearance, and slicks? Lightning will strike first. Knobbies, rocky single-track, plastic fenders, tight trails in the woods? Buy spares.
My Wednesday Night Lights bike goes through two Honjos a year because I set my 650b machine up for gravel road travel/commuting and take it Hucking/ mountain biking at night after work. If I were better at manualing a bike over unexpected drops it would be no problem. No trouble with sticks etc., but I kill front fenders on drop-offs. My rear light wiring got sheared off last week. It is time to pound out the fenders and run a new wire. As a point of comparison, my RH, with 40k plus miles on the road, is on its original front fender.... When I still used SKS fenders, I blew through a couple of fronts a year just knocking around on the road, and got knocked down a couple of times. Metal fenders, properly mounted, are a vig step up in both reliability and efficiency. They are also ordinarily about 200g lighter than the same width chromoplaatics. Honjos or Berthoud are both pretty challenging to mount to Rivendells with horizontal dropouts, as Grant didn't set his bridges carefully.. Best, Will William M deRosset Fort Collins CO -- 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.
