Thank you both for the information. I'll post some pictures of the fenders & Atlantis later today. That will explain the situation more clearly than I can. I'm still learning a lot about my Bike. In the meantime, here is a pre-fender photo of my ride:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jibbah/2602078112/ I'm using Jack Browns (http://www.rivbike.com/products/list/ tires_tubes_pumps_patches?a=1&page=1#product=10-092), which is what was recommended to me at Riv, where they built-up my bicycle. In most cases I got "the usual" and I love these tires. It's a 33.33mm tire and I'm using the 45mm SKS fenders, which are designed for this size tire. Cheers & Thanks, Jordan On Mar 9, 4:05 pm, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 15:33 -0700, Jordan wrote: > > Hi folks. I've recently had some SKS fenders mounted on my Atlantis. > > Unfortunately, I'm not really happy with the results. Both the front > > and rear fenders extend pretty far from the tire. This is especially > > annoying with the front tire, as I already didn't have a lot of toe > > clearance (I'm on a 63 Atlantis 2 with 700's). > > > It looks like both front and rear fenders are limited by a hard > > mounting. In the case of the front fender, it's the mounting behind > > the fork. I don't see how it could go any lower. For the rear fender, > > the issue is the fastening to the bottom bracket. Both of these seem > > addressable with the right hardware, but I'm not sure what that would > > be. The parts that came with the fenders don't seem to do the job. > > > How can I get a nice close-to-the-tire mounting like I've seen in many > > photos? > > Sometimes the design of a frame makes a good fender line very difficult > to achieve. You can fix a problem at the chainstay bridge with spacers > - a friend of mine uses the full length of a wine cork on her Atlantis. > You can also refashion the fork crown bracket, and use spacers under the > fork crown. > > My Velo Orange was remarkably easy to fit fenders to. It was designed > for one particular tire, and the fittings were spec'd for the right > fenders to go with that width tire. The Atlantis, on the other hand, is > meant to be used with a very wide range of tire widths. The fittings > may be close to ideal with some size, not the one you're using... or > perhaps the bike simply wasn't designed with that in mind. Many are > not. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
