"… it takes me a while to get through that bottle of wine, anyway …" Bill, I like the way you think/work. I do the same only in my case it's usually a craft beer. A California brewer by the name of Firestone Walker makes these excellent products that get shipped all the way out here to the Midwest.
On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 5:55:20 PM UTC-6, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > If stays are springing things across the shop floor, you should pre-bend > them so they aren't storing so much stress. If you don't, those sprung > stays are in a perpetual tug-o-war on your bike and invariably one side > will win, and you'll feel like you have to readjust your lame fenders over > and over. Eliminate as many of the stored up stresses as possible at > install-time and you can minimize that. > > I always do the install without the new fangled plastic clip. Once it is > dialed, only then do I mark the stays for cutting. Then I remove, cut, and > re-install with the new fangled clip in place. It's time consuming, but it > takes me a while to get through that bottle of wine, anyway. > > On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 1:23:15 PM UTC-8, Michael Hechmer wrote: >> >> 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.
