I've found that I prefer the chain stay mounting to be a bit forward of perfect alignment to ease removing and replacement of the rear wheel. I use a spacer there, but not long enough to bring the fender to an equidistant position with the seat stay and strut placements. It's not really noticeable unless someone is looking for it. To solve your triangulation issue, install a rack that attaches to the fenders, like the VO Constructeur rear rack, for instance. Or, you could simply add a strut and use the rack eyelets. The rear rack, with two mounting points to the fender, would be stiffer. I don't ride with fenders in the dry part of the summer (when I mostly do short, intense, conditioning rides). but I leave the rack mounted to the fenders when I remove them. It takes me all of five minutes to reattach the fenders when I need them or the rack.
On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 7:41:56 AM UTC-4, jeffrey kane wrote: > > We've been using my wife’s new Cheviot (aka: the Mother’s Day Chev) almost > non-stop around town since the start of summer … without fenders. I figured > I’d get to them once we settled into the season a bit. In the end I went > with a pair of Velo Orange Snakeskin 650b/50's to clear the Hetres and > while they don't offer a particularly large area of coverage, they are > positively handsome! V/O certainly has their fender line dialed in. As > others have mentioned here, their hardware is cleanly refined … even the > packaging is first rate. > > What has thrown me for a loop, however, is the uneven spacing of the > Chev's seat and chain stay bridges. Normally on a Riv I'd have secured the > rear fender at the the seat-stay bridge and just dealt with the horizontal > drilling for caliper brakes (my favorite fix is to use a fender daruma as a > spacer). But in the case of the of the mixte, the brake bridge is simply > too close to the chain-stay bridge to offer much rigidity in terms of > triangulation. And anyway, Riv spec’d another bridge, drilled vertically > on the seat-stay. > > So it didn't seem odd to me to attach the fender to the unused seat-stay > bridge, right? Except that bridge is over 6mm too high! And just to > complicate matters, the chain stay bridge is almost 2.5 cm too far forward! > Clearly these bridges were placed without fender alignment in mind (despite > the proper drilling for such). I don’t understand the point since you can’t > get around the brake bridge spacing either way … it’s not like it’s usable > clearance for bigger tires. I’m wondering if anyone else has encountered > the same and whether there's an explaination out there somewhere for this > oddness? > > Here's some pic's of my spacing hacks: > > -- 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.
