I have recently installed two sets of Longboards after not having used plastic fenders for a decade. The first installation, on Pat's new Betty Foy took me somewhat longer than I anticipated, which I attributed to inexperience, but came out fine. The second installation, purchased to replace a broken Honjo, (after many years of use) on my Ram has proven to be downright frustrating.
Two issues came up; one took a lot of struggle to resolve and the second looks unresolvable. Starting with #2, the front fender is set about 10 mm above the Grand Bois Cerf tire, which allows plenty of clearance for the Paul's CP brakes. But the front tip of the fender sticks up a full 30 mm from the tire. I don't suppose this is a real problem but it does look a bit off to my eye. The second problem was trying to get the fenders, both front and back, centered on the tire. They kept pulling off to the left. Some of this may be me but some of the difficulty resides in the new clips. The SKS fenders I remember threaded the stays through the metal clip and then you added a plastic cap, and/or cut them off if you wanted to. I would never cut them off unless I was installing the maximum size tire possible and still had a lot of stay sticking up, which didn't actually happen. The new clips require estimating the length, cutting the stays, threading the stays through the lock nut and cap, then coming back and adjusting the fender line at the end of the process. Because the fenders didn't want to center on the tire I repeatedly loosened the nuts to readjust. Sometimes this resulted in the stays springing out of the clips and flinging the compression nut across the shop floor. Of course I needed to take the whole thing apart and check that the stays weren't upside down and were both the same length. They were right. I expended a lot of energy worrying about whether the stays were too long..... or too short. I watched the installation video on the RBW website twice, which makes it look easy, but offers no trouble shooting counsel. I'm not sure if there is a question in all of this, except maybe, am I all alone in the universe? Michael -- 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.
