| Re: Anyone know the efficacy of full fenders hacked onto a road bike?
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:55:52 +0000, Collin wrote:
> I didn't need to do this for my road bike. If you have 25mm or smaller
> tires, you could be able to get away with properly mounting SKS full
> fenders. They are 35 mm wide, I have standard reach brakes and 26mm
> tires. The clearance between the wheel and fender is about 1mm. Try
> this before hacking away.
Are you running sidepulls or dual-pivots? Dual pivots need a little more
room to do their thing than side-pulls.
SKS's are fine fenders, I was just suggesting that the OP take advantage
of a cheap set if he wants to do a little experimentation.
1mm is some tight clearances!
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