Ron, on the tire wipers do you have them in contact at all with your tires? I installed the compass wipers on my Saluki last fall and found them to be fiddly, lots of adjustment to keep them from buzzing on the tire. I've got them off the tire enough now to not require ride to ride adjustment but I also now question the utility.
I will say that I don't notice picking up small rocks to rattle my fenders come to think of it but I also haven't ridden any significant gravel. Tony On Mon, Apr 9, 2018, 7:07 AM Ron Mc <bulldog...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm going to take exception with Patrick, in that, you'll never crack any > fender unless you install it with external residual stress (and yes, he > admitted that). > I have one set of Honjos that has been on two bikes, for many, many > thousands of miles - wrecked on the 1st bike, reshaped the S-shaped front > fender to install them on the second bike. > Honjos take very well to shaping compound curves. Spread them every inch > or so to tighten the radius, squeeze, etc.to increase the radius. > > <https://imgur.com/5uXqCmt.jpg> > > I don't hesitate to ride the bike in slop, but on my Compass slicks, and > the reason I don't care about the slop is I use tire wipers where most put > their mud guards. They reject everything from the fenders and scrape > occasional mud from the tires, preventing the fenders from plugging. Zero > noise on gravel roads. That said, not intended for riding in mud, but > dealing with intermittent mud patches > > <https://imgur.com/rhRHsdD.jpg> <https://imgur.com/RPmMrBf.jpg> > > Jan didn't like this, but for Many (thousand) miles, it works fine. Have > flipped the front scraper backwards, and it simply deflects out of the > way. It rejects rocks, sticks, chert and most of the mud from entering the > fender. > > I don't think I'd use any fenders with knobbies. I think I'd go with > mountain bike type mudguards for knobbies. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/GvQZInysJhI/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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. > -- 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.
