Fork-crown darumas are giant space-wasters in my opinion, and unnecessarily heavy. My most frustrating fender experiences are all daruma-related. I would rather make a custom L bracket and rivet it directly to the fender than ever use a daruma again.
Riveted brackets, though - give you maximum clearance. With plastic SKS fenders, you can easily cut a slot, to mount the bracket through the fender, instead of on top. I think it looks professional and nice, even if you've had to hack everything together. Philip www.biketinker.com On Sunday, July 7, 2013 7:18:41 PM UTC-7, Matt S wrote: > > I'm new to the group and apologize in advance if this topic has already > been beaten to death but I'm starting to run out of patience... > > I recently bought my wife a 54cm ca. 1995 Rivendell. I'm in the process of > installing some 40mm Tanaka alloy fenders and I am battling with the > minimal clearance for fenders offered on the bike. I'm using 28mm Gran Bois > Cerf tires. I bought some River City Reacharounds as there simply isn't > enough clearance on the rear so I needed to cut the fenders. Looks like the > front will also need to be cut. Not enough room for a crown daruma. > > The rear fender is pretty much in place but the fender line is funky. I'd > love to hear other folk's solutions. Thanks in advance. > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
