the SKS plastic fenders have a reinforcing metal bridge that crosses at the stay attachments, so you could drill it there and use the standard Berthoud stays
On Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 11:34:54 AM UTC-6, ted wrote: > > I recall seing plastic Gilles Berthoud fenders on Peter White's site some > years back. The fender material was like SKS fenders and the struts were > the same type used on the metal Berthoud fenders. Does anybody here know > about those? Specifically does anybody know how many struts were on each > fender? > > Metal fenders have a single stay. Plastic fenders (e.g. SKS) have those V > shaped stays that attach to the fender in two places. Sort of like using > two stays on a single metal fender. I have always assumed that the plastic > ones need more attachment points because they are more flexible than metal > ones. However the arc from the chain stay bridge (or kick stand plate) to > the brake bridge is unsupported and fairly long. So I wonder if a single > well placed aluminum stay would be sufficient. Perhaps the thicker aluminum > stays are stiffer than the thin steel ones used by SKS, and with the > different kind of stay one is enough. > > -- 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.
