Using 60 mm fenders with 42 mm tires will perform fine and look only a bit off -- I use 45 mms with 22 mm tires on my Riv commuter (22 mm tires because they are the only size I can find in 559 that have top of line casings; these are old stock Spec Turbos).
What you have to worry about is catching obstacles up into the front fender and, #2, banging the bottom of the front fender on edges of dropoffs. I heartily recommend putting aside aesthetic priorities here -- the Riv list seems fixated on aesthetics to a degree perhaps excessive -- and choose fenders for practicality, and I suggest the Planet Bike Cascadias. The excessively short length of the front actually helps because, with fat tires, it gives more dropoff room; you can always extend the absurdly short front flap. Moreover, the high trailing end makes it less likely that you will pick up an obstacle between tire and fender/ I use the PBs on my Monocog 29er, where they work very well. They are too flexible, but that allows they to shrug off bumps and falls; the short front is adequate thanks to the very high bb of the Monocog -- it keeps the spray off the bb -- and you can install SKS QR mounts on front, which I have not bothered to do but ought to consider doing myself. Patrick Moore, who has owned 3 custom Rivs and loves their looks, but loves their fit and feel and handling and quality far far more than their looks. On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Rene Sterental <orthie...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am debating whether to install fenders on my new Bombadil, which I still > haven't had time to finish assembling, but should be done by Saturday at the > latest, as all I have left is to install the shifters and fine tune the > brakes. I have switched the knobby tires to Specialized El Capitan Control > 2Bliss, 2.2 front and 2.0 rear, which now give good clearance. This is > essentially a 56mm wide front knobby tire and a 51mm wide rear tire. > > I'd like to install fenders, which at this point would have to be Giles > Berthoud stainless steel fenders in 700x60, but am wondering if there would > be negative risks if I went mountain biking with the fenders. Someone told > me that a rock or something else could get stuck between tire and fender > with catastrophic consequences. > > I'm also planning to use Marathon Extreme tires when I'm riding it in the > road primarily and only need easy dirt trail capability, and just discovered > there is a Marathon Supreme version in 2.0 as well. Will the 1.6 Marathon > Extremes (42mm wide) look odd or behave oddly with 60mm fenders? > > Let me know what you think about mountain biking and going off-road with > fenders. > > René > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com (505) 227-0523 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
