Dr Moore, Get those fender lines right! They're backward--lefty tighty, righty loosey for fenders (i.e. don't let anything in that can't get out!). But, seriously, your Rivs are ones of a kind and always fabulous.
Best, joe in pdx or On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I got the described 650B X 48 fenders for a *very *good price -- $65 > shipped Priority, 2 days -- from Clymb (who claim that every shipment is > "carbon neutral" -- some sort of high tech frame feature, I guess). > > But! The damned things seem long enough and wide enough in arc to be 700Cs > -- look at the length of the un-amputated front: no need for a flap on this > one! And lined up against the 700C X 51 Furious Fred wheels on the Fargo, > the arc seemed much closer than with my 559 X sub-28s. I guess I should > have held out for, paid for, and waited for, 650B X 40 stainless steel > Berthouds from PJW. Oh well. > > I tweaked, massaged, flared, and coaxed the front into the arc you see -- > it took a lot of work, and there is, alas, still tension in the metal: I > just hope that it is slight enough that the fender will remain intact. > > On the rear it was easier, since I in fact wanted the arc to be > considerably wider than the tire, since this is a fixed gear with very long > dropouts and, perhaps eventually, a very wide cog spread. > > Also, I wanted to amputate the rear just for'ard of the rear-most > extension of the tire: this so that, when I shove the bike into the back of > my PT Cruiser, it don't bend the fender. I think this length is long enough > not to look strange and yet to provide full coverage for me and bike (any > following riders are wheelsuckers are deserve anything they get). > > Damn! I spent 5 1/3 hours installing these fenders, and I've installed > many metal as well as plastic fenders in the past. The Honjos are > deliciously light, but also deliciously delicate compared to the stainless > steel Berthouds and, beside the arc, I had to contend with the 48 mm width > which is, really, 5 mm more than my frame really likes. > > Bike as shown, sans Zefal HpX and Banzer Bag is 24 lb; the pump and BB add > 1.5 lb more. > > Not bad! > > > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten > > ************************************* > *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a > circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and > individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu > > *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* Carthusian motto > > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
