I have both. Honjos on my Rambouillet, VO Zeppelins on my commuter and that's been a perfect distribution based on each's particulars.
Honjos may not be the best for a first time installation unless you are careful, useful with your tools and have finished all your other chores (I got mine undrilled, with all the parts from a list member). Used Jan Heine's article in BQ as my instructions. Thin, light and quiet. Pricey, unless sourced as I did, but really do have a good visual result. The hammered pattern has a small crease on the rear where a plastic-go-faster goober rear ended me with a brake/shifter at a stoplight downtown (head aero-tucked and intention to run the light to preserve a Strava segment record?). Her bike rendered inoperable as a result. Honjo vs. brifter? Fender won that time not needing adjustment to ride on. VOs came with holes drilled, parts and instructions. After having learned on the Honjos, these went quickly. I did redrill the front one to rotate more fender behind the wheel so I didn't need a foot long flap for best spray protection. Thicker metal, bigger stays, a bit less coverage length than comparable Honjos, but quiet and half the price. Have taken the bashing of year round commuting, parking in racks and a couple of spills with aplomb and no visible damage. Whatever negatives they may have are lost in their performance of function. Honjos if you want light, longer, precise placement of that coverage, don't mind the cost for more refined aesthetic and feel handy enough after reading the BQ article. VO if the utter weight is less of a concern, having them prepped for your installation is attractive, and don't mind the difference in length to the comparable product. You still have to install them. Even if you intend to just take them to a bike shop, don't. Read how to and install your fenders yourself. You will have more acuity of the details, appreciation of the fender line and exactitude of the execution than a shop mechanic would and every time you ride this fact will revisit and torture your soul. This applies unless you patronize a very informed, Bob-like shop that can swim out of the mainstream and remain fiscally pertinent while acquiring knowledge and skill in bizarre low frequency subjects like low trail, hub generators, fenders, bags and racks, etc. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 7:21:06 PM UTC-4, Lungimsam wrote: > > Which is better, and why? Diffs? > > I have Honjos (~150$) on my Bleriot, but 150$ is a lot of money, compared > to ~67$ for VO's, if I ever want to replace the SKS on my Sam with metal > fenders. > > I have seen a famous blogger (not Grant) sort of, but not so obviously, > refer to VO stuff as "budget", but is that really true? Or is VO stuff good > and pretty reliable for long term and not easy to fail? > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
