On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Bill Lindsay <[email protected]> wrote:
> [...] > My main point is that for the everybody else who is not so lucky, the > universal solution for getting your wheel out from a perfect fender is to > allow your rear wheel to "drop out". That's one of the reasons why > vertical dropouts are the thing to have on a derailer equipped bike, in my > opinion. For bikes that cannot have vertical dropouts, you can still > easily make your rear wheel drop-out with a rear hub with removable bolts. > I very much agree, and an ENO is very useful for that. But even the ENO has its liabilities: in my own experience, limited take-up (2 cogs max); and crowding the brake bridge on one bike (I had to be careful to rotate the axle downward, contrary to the way it wanted to rotate under the weight of the bike; and, last one, making rear pad adjustment fiddly, since you have to adjust for the slack and the tight chain positions. I think the ENO is a wonderful device, having used two on two different bikes, but it too has its liabilities. Maybe the solution is an elastic chain! > > What have your "erstwhile Honjos" become? If they used to be Honjos, did > they become SKF's? Or perhaps you meant that they were formerly *yours*, > not that they were formerly *Honjos*. haha ;-) > They transmogrified into Longboards. Not really. They got dumped -- long story. But they did end up in a user's hands, so not a waste. > > On Monday, November 25, 2013 11:46:09 AM UTC-8, Patrick Moore wrote: >> >> A good fender line is not at all impossible with horizontals. My >> erstwhile Honjos looked perfect on the Curt and wheel removal was not a >> problem (32 mm tires). But I have to admit that this serendipity was just >> that -- by chance. >> >> -- *RESUMES THAT GET YOU NOTICED!* Certified Resume Writer http://resumespecialties.com/index.html [email protected] http://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Albuquerque, NM -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
