Mat: Will you please share these hybrid fender ideas? I like to add fenders to my dirt road bike during the ~2-month rainy season (starts in July; just now ending), but full fenders don't work well for the reason you (and Jobst) site and because of massive toe overlap with the sortof-roadish geometry and 60 mm tires.
FWIW, I've devised a usable system involving a rear 2/3 fender (bolted at cs bridge, ss bridge, and extending just far enough to keep gunk off the saddle) and half front fender (stopping just above the toe overlap position) augmented by "dash plate" bolted to bottom-of-dt bottle bosses and running from end of half fender to just aft of bb. This works better than the "moto" style mtb fenders, but I'l open to improvements. On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 10:23 AM, Mat Grewe <matgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jobst wrote about fenders as a liability on hiking trails that he rides ( > here <https://yarchive.net/bike/fender.html>). Like Jobst, I only ride > one bike and will be removing my metal fenders for the same reasons he > chose to never use them. Fenders on trails has given me too much grief, > even though I have proper clearance and use slick tires. There are a few > hybrid fender ideas that mitigate liability, but minimize road grime on > me/the drivetrain that I may try if I deem necessary. For folks who keep > multiple bikes or don't ride trails, fenders make a lot of sense and I am > sure I will miss them from time to time. > > Mat > -- 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.
