no, there is no load on the fender - that is the point of aligning the stay in the rod bolt - not where it looks it ought to be, but where it relaxes the fender.
On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 7:09:08 AM UTC-6, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-02-26 at 05:03 -0800, Ron Mc wrote: > > I installed Honjos last month, and the real trick to these is the > > lateral position of the stay in the fender rod bolt. The front is > > usually symmetric, but it depends on the alignment of the fork hole > > where the daruma rod bolt is attached. The rear is probably not > > symmetric, due to different spread in the rear triangles. It takes a > > few cycles of installing the wheel and adjusting the stay position in > > the rod bolt, before final tightening, to get it perfect. > > That sounds a lot like you're pulling the fender into position with the > stay. If so, know that in time that will result in the fender's > cracking from the stress. > > > > -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.