For metal fenders, the recommendation is to use fenders that are at least 10mm wider than the tires, although you can get away with a bit less. Fenders are described in mm, while tires as you describe them are in inches. Roughly, a 2.0 tire is 50mm, so you'd need a 60mm metal fender (26x60). Metal fenders also seem to need more vertical clearance below the crown than plastic fenders. I'd say that you probably want around 10mm of vertical clearance, although you can get away with a bit less; the issue here is having enough space between the tire and the nut if you mount them with a daruma. If you use a bracket, then you can get away with less clearance, at least in my experience.
I've mounted so many metal fenders on my bikes, that I now can do a much better job; when I started, it took me almost a day for each fender as no matter how closely I followed the instructions available online, there were so many things I wasn't doing right and had to redo/undo. When doing my last metal fender installation (Berthoud steel fenders on my Betty), the rear one went in very quickly, but the tight tolerances between the front Hetre tire and the Betty's fork forced me to try so many alternate ways, that it took several 4 hour evenings. I succeeded (details in an older post) but the tolerances between the tire and the fenders are probably less than ideal on the front. René René On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Michael <john11.2...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think 40, 50, and 60, are the mm width ratings of the fender. So you can >> tell what size tires will fit under it. The 26 would stand for the size >> wheel that the fender is made for. So, 700 x 45, or 26 x 50, or 650b x 40, >> etc. >> >> > Somebody correct me if I am wrong. > > -- > 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
