On Friday, January 3, 2014 3:52:02 PM UTC-8, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On 01/03/2014 05:55 PM, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > Maybe it's the prototype and Riv caught that detail and the production > > ones will have it further back? > > Maybe it's on-purpose for those who will not run fenders and will run > > knobbies, for less mud stack-up down there? > > > Misplaced chain stay bridge for good fender line is a common defect in > Rivendell designs. A friend of mine has an Atlantis whose chain stay > bridge is positioned so far from ideal she needed to use the full length > of a wine cork as a spacer in order to get a decent fender line. > Although providing ample clearance for fenders is high on the list, > sweating the details for perfect permanent mounting doesn't get much > attention. (After all, consider the whole zip-tie the fenders on > thing...) >
I haven't paid too much attention to this parameter on other Rivendells, but at least on my two (including one Atlantis), the bridges were equidistant to the dropout. Particularly on the Atlantis, there is so much built-in space around the wheels that I had to use 25mm standoffs on both seat stay and chain stay bridges to get a good fender line. This is with an aluminum fender and the Compass 26x1.75 tire. Nevertheless, I don't consider equidistant bridges (albeit with excess space) to be "misplaced". -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
