1-2cm clearance all around sounds like plenty of room. Are you using new-ish tires? New tires seem a bit more tacky and can pick up pebbles and small rocks. After using them for a while, the rocks-in-fenders have diminished.
On Tuesday, November 11, 2014 12:58:24 AM UTC-5, lungimsam wrote: > > Hello, > > I recently installed H50 Honjos on the Bleriot with my Hetres, as you may > recall from an earlier post. > > I have between what looks like 1-2cm clearance all around. Tightest are > under the sidepull brakes. That's the max I can get. Tires spin fine, no > rubbing. No rattling. > > But on the two commutes I did this week, I repeatedly heard pebbles and > rocks rattling through the fenders as I rode over them. > > Does this indicate that the clearances are not ample? > Do I need to go to a narrower/smaller tire? > > I have SKS Longboards and Hetres on my Sam bike and I rarely hear rocks > going through, though the clearances look similar to what I have on the > Bleriot. > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
