[RBW] Re: Fender on /off

2013-01-08 Thread Jay in Tel Aviv
Michael, That's how I do it. First time I marked the stays with tape to remember where each one was supposed to go. Now I just leave them on and shove the whole thing on top of a closet. Jay On Jan 8, 3:00 am, Michael wrote: > > Here in MD, I will leave them on year round.  It rains pretty regu

[RBW] Re: Fender on /off

2013-01-07 Thread William
"Anyone tried this? Does it work out that easily." I do this on three bikes. My most roadish bike gets stripped down in the summer, and then two other bikes I run sometimes with 650B road tires and fenders and other times with knobbies and no fenders. It does work out quite easily. You just

[RBW] Re: Fender on /off

2013-01-07 Thread Michael
> > Here in MD, I will leave them on year round. It rains pretty regular-like > here in the Spring and Summer, and fall. > It took me a while to get mine set up. But I imagine, you could easily remove them from the attachment points without messing up the stays set-up. In theory, you could rem

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2013-01-07 Thread Jeremy Till
+1 on Sheldon Fender Nuts to make SKS fender installation/removal a breeze on sidepull equipped bikes, especially if the bike also has a threaded mount between the chainstays (do current AHH's have one?). Any LBS with a Quality Bike Parts account can order them. I do the on-in-the-fall off-in

Re: [RBW] Re: Fender on /off

2013-01-07 Thread Manuel Acosta
Fenders come off once the weather gets good and dry. Taking them off makes me feel like I have a new bike. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-

Re: [RBW] Re: Fender on /off

2013-01-07 Thread Eric Norris
I've found that taking fenders on and off is much easier once they're set up correctly. Many riders (not myself included) bring fendered bikes to PBP and reassemble them once they got to France. I traveled with a fendered bike in a bike case to a ride last year, and putting the (plastic) fende

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2013-01-07 Thread William
I just did a fender swap on my 650B Hilsen. I removed an aluminum set of Honjos and installed a set of silver SKS Longboards that I just bought from Riv. While I was doing the work I noted how much more efficient I have gotten at this class of task, having done it many times now. I wasn't ru

Re: [RBW] Re: Fender on /off

2013-01-07 Thread Ryan Ray
I love the sound (it was better with my metal fenders) of rocks hitting the inside of my fenders. One less scratch on my frame. - Ryan On Monday, January 7, 2013 10:34:11 AM UTC-8, René wrote: > > I just leave mine on year-round. I find that in the summer months, the > fenders help keep the b

Re: [RBW] Re: Fender on /off

2013-01-07 Thread René Sterental
I just leave mine on year-round. I find that in the summer months, the fenders help keep the bike/parts cleaner as well from the dust/dirt on the roads and trails. The bike I've been riding with no fenders gets a lot dirtier than the fendered ones. I just don't see any penalty that having the fende

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2013-01-07 Thread Cyclofiend Jim
You might get it set up with Sheldon's Fender nuts. That eliminates the brake removal step and makes a 30 minute task into a 15 minute task. Either way is relatively easy. I tend to leave my QB fenders in place year round these days, and that's probably easier due to canti brakes rather than