Shape the fender radius to the arc of your tires by using your fingers to slightly push the sides together all along its length (makes fender longer/ends move away from tire) or spreading them apart with fingers on each side of fender and the thumb along the spine all along its length (makes fender radius tighter, hugging the curve of the tire better and closer on the ends. Never grab the ends of the fender and pull or push them towards/away from each other. You will kink the fender.
*It must be attached to the chainstay bridge. *You can buy nylon spacers/steel spacers/cork spacers at a hardware store. Next attach to Seatstay bridge. Do all this with the stays attached to fender but not to frame yet. Attach stays to frame last, under no tension. Right now I am in single combat with a Berthoud fender over a 32mm tire on a Rambouillet and it just...won't...fit. Front was fine, but rear...no way. Even after trying different things with the mounting points the tire is just...too..big. So I will install 28mm tires, which I was planning all along. But I like to install fenders with largest tires possible first (if I have them) to get maximum clearance for the smaller ones I will actually use. So 32mm fender installation for 28mm tires = massive clearance. I like alot of clearance. -- 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.
