Has anyone actually tried these with non-PDW fenders? I've had a couple of sets of fancy-pants Honjos for years, which I never completely installed on my old Raleigh International, because the Raleigh's chainstay bridge wasn't drilled for a mount point and I never got around to kludging a satisfactory substitute together. Now I have a Trek 720, which has both a drilled chainstay bridge and a seatstay bridge with a fender mount hole - but the PDW Safety Tabs (the QRs for the rod stays for metal fenders) are made for the 6mm stays of PDW's metal fenders, while the Honjo standard stays are 5mm, with a 4mm lightweight option. AFAIK, most stays for metal fenders are also 5mm, e.g. Velo Orange, Gilles Berthoud.
https://ridepdw.com/collections/fenders/products/full-metal-fenders-safety-tabs Blue Heron Bicycles in Westbrae (Berkeley) is a PDW dealer, and the safety tabs are only $9 list; I suppose I could experiment, as long as it's an impulse purchase. Alternately, you could replace the Honjo/VO/GB stays with PDW's stays, but bigger stays/eyelets (which PDW does not sell; they use a different/cheaper mounting system) would take away much of the Honjo/VO textured elegance. I'm concerned that if you use an undersized stay in the QR, it either won't grip the stay enough to stay in place to begin with, or it'll rattle. If you build up the rail to fill the gap, will it still release from the QR when necessary? Peter "comfort? safety? style? hmmm" Adler Berkeley, CA/USA On Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 11:12:25 AM UTC-7 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > I think Riv’s objection to metal is in regards to safety. No metal fender > comes with breakaway tabs. The SKS have breakaway tabs for the front wheel, > BUT Portland Design Works makes breakaways for metal fenders, which answers > the safety question. > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/b0ff8576-ed7b-4933-868a-7eeafa3c9716n%40googlegroups.com.
