I'll be taking delivery of a Bike Friday Hauladay cargo bike shortly and will need to outfit it with fenders. Here's the deal: the bike will come stock with 20x1.75 tires. I will want to immediately upgrade them to 20x2.0 Schwalbe Big Apples, or if the frame will fit even larger ones, 20x2.125 Schwalbe Big Bens. The problem is going to be sourcing fenders that fit. Both Planet Bike and SKS make fenders for 20" wheels, but the widths limit them for use with 1.75" wide tires. The Planet Bike fenders are 50mm wide (and I have these on another 20" wheeled bike with 20x1.75 tires, and it's a very tight fit). The SKS fenders are 55mm wide.
I'm considering trying some VO stainless 60mm fenders for 26" wheels and re-radiusing them for 20" wheels, which will widen them significantly, but I've only ever done this for using 700C fenders on 650B applications, where the delta radius was only about an inch, and it's very easy. But going from 26" to 20" would require a delta radius of around 3"! Does anyone know of any wider fenders that will work with 55 and even 60mm wide 20" tires? -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
