I heard many stories, even from people working for bike shops, about the difficulty... well, I kind of assumed they meant "tedium"... of mounting metal fenders. I always suspected that it wouldn't be *too* tedious compared to putting on SKS chromoplastic ones, which I had done several different times on a few different bikes. But I knew it was going to be trouble to get them right. The universal theme of "trouble" that ran through every story about mounting metal fenders literally kept me from pursuing the notion for months. Then came the sale. They fenders I had already thought were pretty much what I wanted went on sale for less than half of their already decent normal price. So I got them. I mounted them. I could either use an L-bracket or a daruma on the front. I chose the L-bracket. I didn't have a theaded hole under the rear brake bridge, so I used an L-bracket-with-fender-clip arrangement in the back. I had to drill a hole so that I could attach the front fender to the underside of my rack. I had to find spacers for both there and the space between the kickstand-plate and the rear fender. I had to drill two holes for my fender-mounted light. All the other holes were pre-drilled. I found the fenders were only marginally harder to put on than the SKS chromoplastics. A guy who worked at a bike shop who saw a picture of my bike right after I put them on said "You got the fender line just right!". He was actually impressed. I thought... "I am invincible!" Of course, that's what a guy said in some Bond movie shortly before he was frozen by a flood of liquid nitrogen or something. So very quickly, and ever since then, I have considered myself *extremely*lucky to have needed no trips to any store, no more ordering, and no waiting to be able to actually use my new fenders the same day I took off the old ones. And I also quickly acquired two more sets of those particular fenders, for I knew that they'd wear out eventually (perhaps soon, since I *must*have done something wrong in installing them!) and/or that I might want them for a second bike at some point. I became so certain that I dodged a deadly bullet by using those particular fenders on that particular frame on that particular day that, when the time came to decide what kind of bike to get as bike #2, I actually considered those fenders as a (small) factor in favor of getting a second frame identical to the one I already have. You'll have to take my word for it that it wasn't a particularly important factor. Because I am in fact getting a second frame identical to the one I already have. And that I am much less worried about installing the fenders as a result. Though trust me, I'm not looking forward to it. I'm not *that*lucky. Fender-mounting is really tedious! Yours, Thomas Lynn Skean
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