Great info, thank you! I will be attempting to put the fenders on 38's...so fingers crossed on that one for sure! No canti here. I like the idea of the fender eyelet. I'll explore that option. Thanks again!
On Friday, August 13, 2021 at 5:46:33 PM UTC-4 Joe Bernard wrote: > Yes to both, although it can be a bit of a bodge (I did it, a Romulus was > my first Riv). Fenders are an easy fit over the stock 700 x 28 Ruffy > Tuffys, you have single eyelets front and rear for them. My Rom brochure > claims you can do it with tires as big as 35mm, but I suspect this is 2003 > information when 700 x 35 Paselas were really more like 32. > > The front rack is where things get sticky. I used a Mark's Rack with the > center-mount tongue behind the caliper brake* and clamps at mid-fork for > the struts. Nobody likes using those fiddly clamps but they work fine. > Alternatively you can try a long bolt and spacer at the fender eyelet on > the dropout for longer rack struts. The eyelet is behind the fork blade so > you'll need to set it up so the strut is spaced away from the blade. It's > doable! > > *If you have a canti-Rom you have options for racks that mount at the > brake bolts. > > Joe "wishes he'd taken pictures of this in 2003" Bernard > > On Friday, August 13, 2021 at 12:06:06 PM UTC-7 rickur...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Is there any way to mount a front rack on my Romulus along with vendors? > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/64b2faa2-bb56-46c6-af89-477429ac6582n%40googlegroups.com.
