Mounting fenders and blackburn lowriders

schreef ...
Has anyone tried mounting esge/sks front fenders and blackburn
lowrider racks? The fenders have a plastic piece that attaches to the
same brazeon as the rack. I'm concerned about the mounting order being
brazeon, plastic then rack. This puts the load cantilevered out on a
rather long bolt. A different mounting order puts the fender 'stays'
outside the rack making pannier mounting difficult.

In my experience, the "long bolt" problem is theoretical rather than
practical. BTW you can also mount the plastic outside of the rack,
couldn't you? In any case, make sure your bolts are sufficiently long to
fill out the brazeon completely. If there is room between brazeon and
spokes (which I presume) you could even go for the supersafe route and
use an extra-long bolt with a nut on it. Can't beat that for security.

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Regards,
Marten

On 13 Aug 2003 19:11:15 -0700, (Harry H) wrote:

Has anyone tried mounting esge/sks front fenders and blackburn
lowrider racks? The fenders have a plastic piece that attaches to the
same brazeon as the rack. I'm concerned about the mounting order being
brazeon, plastic then rack. This puts the load cantilevered out on a
rather long bolt. A different mounting order puts the fender 'stays'
outside the rack making pannier mounting difficult.

I haven't done the lowrider rack, but I have had a rack and the sks
fenders on the front. One way to deal with the problem that you
mention is to mount the fender stays higher up the fork. I used those
vinyl-coated plastic clamps placed about five inches above the
dropouts for attaching the fenders. The stays go to the inside of the
rack. The sks stays are longer than need be. so the different angling-
short on top and longer on the bottom- that this mounting creates is
easy. The fenders are perfectly stable.

Marten Hoffmann wrote:
couldn't you? In any case, make sure your bolts are sufficiently long to
fill out the brazeon completely. If there is room between brazeon and
spokes (which I presume) you could even go for the supersafe route and
use an extra-long bolt with a nut on it. Can't beat that for security.

Surely everyone does this as a matter of course.
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