More photos on the Riv Facebook page and my homepage has a few short vids.
On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 8:58:56 AM UTC-7, Clayton wrote: > > > After asking the group for fender recommendations, I bought Velo Oranges > stainless. I found them to be too heavy, and they did not give me enough > tire clearance. I then went and looked at Woody's wood fenders and found > them to be too heavy too, and too thick for clearance with my 2.25 tires. > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LLz7lJ2Sh-o/Vi5B4poyPVI/AAAAAAAAAFc/JMVWqZ2xUkU/s1600/IMG_3334.JPG> > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4crewqnCGiY/Vi5MIz3w28I/AAAAAAAAAGA/3MEyfa9xT20/s1600/IMG_3332.JPG> > The fenders I used are Planet Bikes quick release model. The stock > attachments are terrible, so I made fender clips that snap onto my *racks*, > from ABS, using a heat gun, and they snap on with authority. I fine tuned > the front ones for a safety release in case I suck up a stick. The fenders > snap on and off in about 40 seconds. They are laterally far more rigid than > all the permanent mounted fenders I have tried, as the wire stays are > shorter and splay out more. I glued and riveted a thin compound curved > stainless strip to the front fender to increase lateral stiffness, which > helped a wee bit. I had to remove and reposition the rear stock stays. You > can see how short they are. > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LLz7lJ2Sh-o/Vi5B4poyPVI/AAAAAAAAAFc/JMVWqZ2xUkU/s1600/IMG_3334.JPG> > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LLz7lJ2Sh-o/Vi5B4poyPVI/AAAAAAAAAFc/JMVWqZ2xUkU/s1600/IMG_3334.JPG> > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2DIUFnh5kPY/Vi5BrZwZWXI/AAAAAAAAAFU/eug9pJJ_UNY/s1600/IMG_3331.JPG> > > I am rather surprised and very happy on how well these work. > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LLz7lJ2Sh-o/Vi5B4poyPVI/AAAAAAAAAFc/JMVWqZ2xUkU/s1600/IMG_3334.JPG> > -- 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.
