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How do I deal with this? Bend the edges in? Extra long stack of spacers?
20" VO fenders on a Neutrino.
Hmm
May be a moot point. I need new stays because cut them for my old bike and theyāre too short for the new one. VO doesnāt have the black replacement ones in stock for the 60mm fenders. Might be a while before I can do anything with these.
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McMaster has threaded metric standoffs. I have a long bolt running through a wine cork cut to size. Search the velolumio blog for dimpling instructions
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Iāve done this before and it works well. I like using the plastic ācorksā for this purpose.
Iāve also seen the disc brake fender spacers used. I think a long bolt, long spacer, and fork crown daruma combo would do it pretty cleanly.
With leather or rubber washers
extra spacers from cx-70 canti brakes 
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Regular old wine cork and a long bolt woks fine too. Do you have enough tire clearance with the fender in that spot?
wine cork. Make sure you use a flat washer against the frame and donāt compress too much or youāll break the cork.
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Jamis fork is carbon and has lots of clearance. Enough to make fender installation a bit difficult using a crown mount.
There are mounts by the axle and 3 pack mounts up the fork legs. Iām thinking of trying to mount the fender using two sets of fender stays instead of one set plus a crown mount. A stay attached to the upper fork mounts would do the job of the crown mount. Anyone ever tried to mount a fender that way?
Would have the upper mount fairly close to the crown I would think to keep the stays as short and stiff as possible.
Edit - something like this:
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No hole in the crown unfortunately. Just two M4 screws, one in front and one in the rear.
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Iād use an L-bracket for the top of the fender right behind the crown and a front strut to stabilize.
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I donāt think thatās going to be very stiff, in any direction, since thereās no triangulation.
IMO this is sort of obvious but would be better:
I ran my second support stay from the mid-fork eyelet to 3 inches back from the front end of the fender and it stiffened it up enough to keep the lower portion from wobbling into the tire on gravel and singletrack.
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Actually you should get really wild with it
Call it the Markās Fender like that Rivendell Nitto rack
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I would just keep in mind that going elaborate with the support system is going to be a headache when something wedges itself between your tire and fender and twists everything up. An L-bracket is easier to repair on the road to put back in place.
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Please make a fender dickaleur
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I ended up cobbling together an L bracket and a spacer to get the fender low enough, but it doesnāt look too great and definitely needs an additional front stay to keep the wiggle at bay.
Since there is a bolt on the front and rear of the crown, I might make a thin metal bracket that attaches to both and runs underneath the crown.
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jeremy_clarkson_but_i_like_this.bmp
i think a lot of good ideas have been presented here but this one just sparks some amount of joy within
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