Hi, Patrick. Love your Hillborne pictures. Is that a Hebie double kickstand mounted on it in one of the photos? Did it mount nicely to the kickstand plate?
When you say 60s are wide, are you talking about the Berthoud stainless 60mm fenders in particular? With some fenders, I'd agree that 60mm would be wider than I'd want for 40mm tires (and, partly thus, for the Hillborne). In fact, I've used 45mm SKSs with my 700cX40 Nokian studded tires on my current hybrid Trek without actual problems, though I switched to using 50mm SKSs as soon as feasible after living with a slight buzz for a while. The 50mm SKSs worked just fine sans buzz. And are probably as big a fender as I'd ever need on the Hillborne. But it isn't clear that Berthoud's are measured the same way as the SKSs. So I don't really know what large-ish fender alternatives there are. And now Berthoud has a fender that looks better than the SKSs in the pictures I've seen and is made of the same stuff (literally the SKS chromoplastic). Which I like. I don't really know whether the same size comparison issue exists for the chromoplastic Berthouds. Anyone know? I don't even know whether I stainless steel, aluminum, or chromoplastic fenders at this point. Is this what some folks go through picking out napkins and such for a wedding? Forgive me, it's my first Riv! Yours, Thomas Lynn Skean On Jun 24, 1:38 pm, PATRICK MOORE <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 24, 12:31 am, Thomas Lynn Skean <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > (3) For you 700C-wheeled Sam owners: What if any fenders are you > > > using? What tires? Any installation trickery required? How'd you > > > attach at the fork crown? At the brake bridge? > > > I used some 35 or 40 mm matt aluminum fenders on sale from Velo Orange and > > made my own "L" shaped bracket for the front fender -- prefer this to a > daruma. Use bolts instead of pop rivets which seem to come loose. At any > rate, the fender is solid and fits fine over the 33 mm Jack Browns. > > I think I read Riv saying that you can run up to 40s with fenders. > > 60s are pretty darn wide; I use 60s in winter, sometimes, on my 29er and > they are overkill IMO for 40s. > > -- > Patrick Moore > Albuquerque, NM > For professional resumes, contact > Patrick Moore, ACRW at [email protected] -- 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.
