I have a 53 Bleriot with Tektro R559 sidepulls.
Rear fender mounted fine. No problems.
These are Honjo H50 Hammered fenders.
Front fender is giving me multi-facet-ed probs at the fork crown interface.
I cannot tell if I should be using a daruma, or L-bracket to Sheldon fender
nut for the
One way you can handle the daruma nut problem is to use a recessed brake nut
instead of the usual nut. You can put the spacers on the outside of the nut,
and the rim on the recessed nut will save you a few mm. You will need to
enlarge the hole in the fender carefully... But I have done this
when my sidepull brakes are fully released, they do touch the fender, but once
the cables are properly tensioned, everything fits just fine. Bleriot has
spacers on the crown fork daruma; Sweetpea (where the fender and brake touch
when the brake is untensioned) does not have spacers.
So check
