At the beginning of this thread I showed my new Rosco Bubbe road bike. I pointed out that one thing that I consider sub-optimal about it is the horizontal dropouts, and the lame fender lines forced by horizontal dropouts. People pointed out that there are plugs that force the wheel forward in the horizontal dropouts and that you can use a chainring bolt as a 'free' substitute for those aftermarket plugs.
I've implemented that chainring bolt modification. I found a couple of alloy chainring bolts from my weight weenie days, and installed those. Now my wheel is solidly registered against my chainring bolt plugs and sitting at the front of the horizontal dropouts. That 'fixes' the gap at the front of the fender. I trimmed the stays to correct the new gap at the rear, and now I have nice fender line. Here is a link to the BEFORE <https://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/30903035363> shot of the big gap because the wheel was back in the dropout <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xXKuGj1kbGk/WGv3pi2jk-I/AAAAAAAADVs/Tjy40Jcpls0NCmbwNsTdvRxgYe9nEMu1gCLcB/s1600/IMG_1475.JPG> Here's a close-up of the dropout now plugged with a chainring bolt. There's on on the other side as well <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ASCVn8JTf_4/WGv35g7WzFI/AAAAAAAADVw/NP_tjyjrd3Q9fveXPD3sZqJYBIDtJ0XbACLcB/s1600/IMG_1474.JPG> ..and here's the now-better fenderline as a result. thanks for the tip! Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Wednesday, December 21, 2016 at 4:08:38 PM UTC-8, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > I really like that chainring bolt hack. That's excellent. I have a small > collection of alloy chainring bolts from a weight weenie project. I never > use them because they are stupidly fragile, but they weigh nothing, so I > keep them. Those will do nicely in this application. Awesome! > > Bill > > >> -- 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.
