I'm putting some new SKS Longboards on my wife's Novara Randonee. I love
the new cream ones and am thinking about a set for my Atlantis (I have the
pinstriped grey ones on it). I've put these on before on my Atlantis, read
the SKS instructions, watched the Riv video on installing them, but of
course my reality is always different than what is shown in the pictures!
My question is... what determines the orientation of the threaded hole in
the seatstay bridge? On my Atlantis and my wife's Randonee, the seatstay
bridge threaded hole faces "down", so that if you put a long rod into the
hole, it would intersect the rear hub at some point (roughly). However, in
the Riv video, the SKS instructions, on 2 separate old Schwinns, an old
Raleigh, and even an old Diamondback mountain bike, the threaded hole in
the seatstay bridge faces "out" like you'd want for mounting a reflector,
brakes, fenders..., or basically 90 degrees from the way on my Atlantis &
the Randonee. What's the deal? Why would you ever want it to face "down"?
I guess cantilevered brakes are ruled out automatically to mount (which I
assume is what the hole is for anyway, and not fenders). Mounting fenders
becomes a bit more of a pain as well, by the way.
P.S. Where does one get those spacers Riv shows in their video ("one
finger's width")? I'm using a carved wine cork on my Atlantis for a spacer!
Cheers
Robert Opalko
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