I used 50mm Berthoud fenders on my old Quickbeam. They fit perfectly on the frame but were a little tight for 45mm Schwalbe Marathons. I had trouble keeping the fenders from rubbing the tires and ended up using pliers to pinch the rolled edge flat on the rear to get a few millimeters more clearance. 35mm Marathons had great clearance.
To make it easier to take the rear wheel off the bike, I threaded button head bolts through the eyelets from the inside and held the fender stays clamps on with wing nuts. To remove the wheel, I loosed the wingnut enough to pull the stays out of the clamp. Once the stays were loose, I had just enough flex in the fender to get the wheel out. I should note, the fender did eventually crack at the seat stay bridge, but I think that was mostly because I let my saddle bag (with a chain lock inside) ride on the fender (I patched it with a piece of tomato paste can and a lot of epoxy and I'm still using those fenders). In conclusion, Berthoud 50mm fenders fit on a QB and take a shocking amount of abuse! Brad Queens On Sunday, June 3, 2018 at 12:17:27 PM UTC-4, Patch T wrote: > > Hi Bunch, > > I've decided to fender the Quickbeam. My first and quite wet Spring here > on the East Coast in addition to much encouragement from RBW New Yorkers in > a previous thread have been convincing enough. > > I understand 45mm wide fenders will fit the Quickbeam; I've used SKS P45 > before. I can do this, fine, and there are great 700x38 tires out there, > sure. But what if I want to run a 40-42mm wide tire? > > I'm curious about 50-52 mm wide fenders. Honjo/Simworks, Honjo/Compass, > Velo Orange and SKS all have fenders in this range. I know Pillip > Williamson bent and pinched his Zeppelins to squeeze into his QBs > chainstays. > > How difficult is this? > What other considerations are there? > Can you pinch an SKS fender? > If I did this, will I just end up with the same amount of available tire > clearance under the pinched part of the fender? > > > Patch > BKNY > > > > > -- 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.
