Exactly. Put the panhead bolt head or hex button head inside the fender and the nut on the outside. If you have daruma style stays, buy a $5 L-bracket from VO (or the sliding crimp fitting that comes standard with most metal fenders and some plastic fenders, crimp it to the fender or cut it up to make your own L-bracket) - mount one side to the fender and the other to the daruma bolt (play with the orientation for best appearance. Can also use pop rivets ($4 with coupon for rivet gun, $4.80 for 500 rivets with coupon at Harbor Freight) to attach to fender for maximum clearance (use the aluminum rivets and pound or press them flat). You can also get aluminum angle at Lowes or Home Depot and make really nice aluminum L-brackets with a hacksaw, file and drill. If you have a bench grinder, it goes quicker. With a rat tail file, you can make a squiggly point an the bracket to match your lugs. Boulder Bike used to sell nice L-brackets (may have been Berthouds) , they still have some beautiful diamond shaped fender reinforcements.
The most difficult thing that I am putting fenders on is a Hubbuhubbuh with 2.3 tires and linear brakes. The center stays at the rear have very little side clearance and the linear brake cables are just above the tires. The fenders will need to be cut or narrowed at the center stays and probably cut (or possibly slotted) at the brake cables. Honjo H95s (I believe the SimWorks are the same) are plenty wide enough. They are wide and use two darumas - you just put the darumas to the outside of each side of the fender to avoid the center of the tire, or I could use two L-brackets. I am also putting H95s on my Bombadil - it has so much clearance to the 57 mm G-Ones that nothing special needs to be done. Laing Cocoa, FL On Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 1:21:03 PM UTC-4, ted wrote: > The berthoud fender stays are very nice. They bolt directly to the fender > and you can put the small button head end on the inside. I’ve replaced the > stock stays on longboards with berthoud ones and I think it gives a stiffer > result as well as eliminating the internal hardware that some folks claim > sends water from inside the fender onto your feet. If I ever try metal > fenders I’ll probably want to use berthoud stays regardless of who makes > the fenders. -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/d1265fb5-779a-4be8-8934-21f876265689%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
