understood, but why not on the eyelet at the fork drop outs? On Friday, March 24, 2017 at 1:31:32 PM UTC-4, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > > > On 03/24/2017 01:24 PM, Philip Kim wrote: > > that bike looks dialed. i've never seen a front fender mounted on the > mid-fork brazeons like that before. interesting, i wonder why? > > > > Jan showed a setup like that in BQ last year. The purpose is to support > the front section of the fender. If you have a long front fender and no > rack to tie the front of the fender to for support, the front of the fender > can wobble around and that eventually will cause the fender to break. Pano > was justifiably quite proud of the job he did bending the stay to make it > look like that. > > I had a similar situation with my George Longstaff, but because I have no > mid-fork braze-on to anchor the extra fender stay to I had to fasten both > the front and the rear fender stay to the fork eyelet: > > > > > > As you can see, clearances are very tight, and you have to measure the > stay exactly to leave room. What you can't see is the Presta valve lock > not (aka "dork nut") that I'm using as a spacer between the two R clips. >
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