Hi D, Honjo fenders are terrific, but installation can be challenging. Get the fenderline set before fixing the
For tools and drilling in aluminum, here's Ocean Air Cycles: http://oceanaircycles.com/2014/01/26/holes-in-metal-fenders/ Jitensha and Velo Orange have decent instructions, if you have some familiarity with fender installation. https://www.jitensha.com/eng/honjinstl.html https://velo-orange.blogspot.com/2009/03/fender-mounting-instructions.html There's also BQ's fender installation instructions, which you'd need to purchase from BQ. For Q2, do you mean [straddle] cable hanger rubs on the fender? On my 48-cm Hunqapillar, there was little room between the rear brake cable hanger and fender. The straddle cable hanger was set almost to touch the fender in order to have any room for brake actuation. If you have room, then you can raise the straddle hanger. The brake feel+performance might change, but it's the rear wheel, so probably doesn't matter that much. (YMMV!) For Q3, Paul touring canti brakes and Paul Neo-retros would work fine with fenders. Good luck! shoji Arlington MA On Monday, October 1, 2018 at 11:17:34 AM UTC-4, nemom...@gmail.com wrote: > > I just bought a set of SIMWORKS Honjo 62mm fenders for my Joe Appaloosa - > they did not come with any instructions and the parts tags were in > Japanese. While I have watched one (the only one I could find) video > regarding the installation which looks pretty extensive, I do have some > questions if someone has experience with these. Here goes . . . > > 1. Drilling the tiny holes for the hardware in aluminum - does that > require a special bit? and what would be the best approach to get a clean > drill hole result? > 2. I have tektro cantilever brakes CR720 on the bike and the brake cable > tip rubs on the fender when I put it over the wheel. I don't have much room > to cut shorter - and really am > new to the cantilever brake system even though i recently replaced the > cable hardware as it had rusted. I can lengthen the arch wire so that the > brake cable wire may go higher - not sure but wanted to ask before I tore > it apart again. > 3. I'm also looking at the Paul brakes as a replacement but couldn't find > any substantive video on whether these would be ok with the fenders - the > cantilever touring brakes - any thoughts on this as well would be > appreciated. > > Guess that's it - hope this works in getting out there. Thanks, D > -- 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.
