I have had good luck with the 75mm wide VO fenders. I have owned an appaloosa in the past with these fenders and 2.1 tires fit fine and if you are ok with trimming knobs and dimpling chainstays, 2.25 knobbies fit under the fenders as well. I currently have that same pair of fenders on my 59 clem L with 2.25 knobbies and plenty of clearance. I have other bikes with Honjos (3), but I have found VO fenders to be just fine and much less expensive.
I would be wary of any claims made by JH/RH for product, whether it be planing, noise suppression knobbies, or rain channeling fenders... You can also use VO or honjo stays and mounting hardware on plastic fenders of any manufacture and they end up essentially as solid as an aluminum fender. My dirt camper has this setup. the stays are quite inexpensive compared to a full fender set. Cheers. On Thursday, October 26, 2023 at 7:27:48 AM UTC-7 ted.l...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello fellow RBW owners! > > Now that I've happily found narrower tires for my Appaloosa, I'm looking > at fenders. I have three other bikes with fenders, two of them have the > plastic SKS fenders that Riv sells (the older models) and one has a set of > Planet Bike, aluminum fenders. Personally, I'm a big fan of the aluminum > fenders over the plastic ones, they just feel more solid. The Planet Bike > fenders, however, leave a little to be desired. They use the same flimsy > struts found on the plastic versions which, combined with their heavier > weight, cause them to wiggle quite a bit more than the plastic fenders. > > This time around I went looking at some of the fenders made by Honjo, both > the SimWorks branded and the Rene Herse branded models. It looks like these > require more work to mount but may result in a more sturdy fixture to the > bike. I'm not terribly worried about my ability to mount them as I've got a > well equipped shop and have done metalwork before. I'm curious to learn > what folks on the list think of them, though. How easy or difficult did you > find them to install? Were you happy with how you installed them? How has > your experience been riding with them after some time? Also, RH claims > their Honjo fenders are designed differently than the standard Honjo > fenders, is there any merit to their claims? Do they actually do a better > job of channeling water than the non-RH versions? Worth the extra $30? > > Cheers, > > -- > Ted Wood < ted.l...@gmail.com > > -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/524b9365-54ad-453f-927c-11b90fd0b419n%40googlegroups.com.
