Aaron - You are correct about the VO sizes, I was trying to make the hammered finish VO 45s work. I really like the hammered look... don't care much for the smoothies or Zeppelins. My Marathons, like most I have had, run smaller than the listed size. My 47s, mounted and inflated barely make 41mm. So... with wishful thinking, I tried to make the 45mm VO fenders work. They were too tight. Jitensha offers a 43mm hammered finish Honjo, and Boulder noted that: "A 50mm fender is great for those who use Grand Bois 30mm tires but want the option to run something wider such as a 32mm Panaracer Pasela... I believe Boulder's widest hammered finish was a 42, which I presume is the same as Jitensha's 43. I might have made the width work, but the Marathons are also tall. In the end the clearance was too tight. My experience seems different from Rene's in that I am more concerned about too tight, than too wide a fender line. That may be simply a function of our environments. I believe Rene is Bay area, while I am in Indiana. After every windy day - and we have a lot, my commute is a maze of small limbs and sticks of every type. My daily commuter for the last several years has been a thoroughly Riv'ed MB3. I have had countless small sticks rattle off my SKS fenders and spill out of the too loose fender line. A couple of bigger sticks have started to jamb, but I have managed to stop before the fender broke loose. On several occasions I think a tight metal fender might not have been good. But - it is all environment. If I could stick to an asphalt trail or the road I would try harder to make the hammered metal fender work - but that is not where I ride. Bob (Indianapolis)
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Aaron Young <1ce...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bob, > > What size were the hammered fenders? The largest size I can find on the > VO site is a 47 which could be the reason that a 47 tire would have > difficulty fitting with sufficient clearance. If you really want metal > fenders they have the Zeppelin style in 52, but that might even be a tight > fit for Rene's 50 mm Duremes. Here's a link to their fender page. I > > http://store.velo-orange.com/index.php/accessories/fenders.html?p=1 > > In the past my metal fenders have all been from VO and I've been happy > with them. > > Aaron Young > Vancouver, WA > > On Sunday, March 17, 2013, Robert Barr wrote: > >> Rene, >> >> I struggled with the fenders on my Hunqapillar. My thoughtful wife bought >> me some hammered VOs as a gift because I had mentioned that I thought they >> would look great on the Hunq. And they would have - but with 47-622 >> Marathons there wasn't a mm to spare. My normal commute takes me down a >> gravel trail with stones and sticks. I fret the sticks more than the >> stones. After several attempts to fit the VOs (two sizes and lots of >> thinking..). I had to go back to my tried and true SKS. They worked best >> for me and where I ride. Good luck... >> >> Bob >> >> > -- > 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-US. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- 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-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
