Wine corks work. Shellack em to make them last longer. Rubber plugs work. If you have a local bike shop or local hardware store, they will have some creative solutions, I am sure.
On Monday, December 21, 2015 at 4:04:09 PM UTC-6, Reid wrote: > > My wife bought the turquoise proto-Clementine that was used as a demo > starting a few months back. She likes the way it rides much better than the > production run models. To each their own. > > After not that many miles, the long screw that holds the forward end of > the back fender to the area near the bottom bracket loosened up and fell > out. We have the screw, but I did not really notice what Riv used to fill > in the long space between the fender and the frame. Was it a wine cork? > Does Riv usually use something more "standard" than that? Any other ideas? > We (ahem) just happen to have a number of wine corks rolling around, but I > wonder what it was that might have disintegrated in such a short time? > Maybe the screw just needs a lock nut on the threaded end. I'll probably do > that too, but first is deciding what to use as the filler in that space. > > Your suggestions appreciated. > > Reid > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
