On 12/29/2015 08:18 PM, ted wrote:
Easy and hard are subjective assessments made by the person doing the work, but ... I don't think it is accurate to say that "Rivendells are typically not really very well set up for fendering." They take fenders just fine. They all have room for fenders, they all have fender eyelets so you don't have to use p clamps, they all have chainstay bridges or kickstand plates that accommodate bolting a fender there. Apparently some folks find using spacers hard. I don't, and I doubt I am alone in that view. The only thing I have ever encountered that really made putting fenders on a bike hard was there not being room for them. I am a bit mystified by the fixation on equidistant bridges (or kickstand plates), and abhorrence of spacers some folks seem to have. If one orders a custom built bike and feels strongly about such details then by all means make your preferences known and the builder should honor them. Otherwise, if the fenders fit stop whining.
I wonder - what are the fenders you use made of? It's one thing to smush around a plastic fender to make it fit into the sort of irregularly shaped space you get with inconsistent mounting points -- just grab hold of it, yank in the direction you want and clamp it down -- but it's a whole different thing when they're made of aluminum and you have to alter the curve by spreading or squeezing the edges together by hand.
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