I used a variation of the stay-only mounting in order to hold the fender in place while I made a template for a fork crown mount and it was pretty wiggly. I think with three sets like @drandalls drew I think it could work.
Anyways, this afternoon I did this:
This ain’t going anywhere!
yes, ha ha, yes!
i gotta find a pic of my rear fender on front wheel setup on my clydesdale
edit: here it is. used to be suspended by a triangulated and tensioned series of zip ties up to the rack but then i had a spare stay
Hell yea. Good ol reach around
So when I had Johnny Coast put new seatstays on this bike I was like pffft fenders? Don’t put a hole in the brake bridge, I’m never gonna bother. Now I ask: is there a good way to mount a fender on here other than ‘drill a hole in the brake bridge’
p-clamp around the bridge, bolt thru fender into clamp.
chainstay bridge using the same technique:
For a more complicated way, you could also find an old brake stiffener arch, and then mount the fender off that.
@igor when in stock?
the age old question
Jan i think
that’s pretty soon and the soonest I should be spending $100 on fenders
I’ve straight up drilled 2 holes in the fender on either side of the seatstay bridge and just zip tied that fucker on there.
I’ve done this too, works an absolute treat.
Tried something new putting 52mm VO Zeppelins on.
Seatstay bridge on this bike has a threaded boss that you can use to mount a fender with an L bracket. I took a fender eyelet bolt, tapped it to M5, and used that to attach the fender.
The other nuts are more for decoration and hiding the threads of the bolt, but I kind of like how it looks. Might eventually trim the bolt down so that the end is flush with the fender eyelet.
Only thing I’m not really happy with is the boss that this is threaded in to isn’t perpendicular to the seat stays, but there’s nothing I can do about that. I was very pleased that I can get the thru hole aligned without the need for a jam nut. It’s like it was made for this!
Love the clearance on this frame.
boss threaded parallel to the seat stay axis would be clean for fender mounting too
That’s what I do with my frames and it’s a mixed blessing; it’s a bunch harder to clean up the fender line w/o first building a clearance tool and if the fender starts to rattle you need to pop the rear wheel to check that connection
if you’re building/supplying fenders with the frameset though it makes such a nice interface— threaded bolt from underside, jam nut either side of the boss OR a captive threaded adjuster within the seat stay bridge
That’s what inspired this. My MKIII Polyvalent had that arrangement both under the seatstay bridge and under the fork crown and it was so nice.
My Jamis (aurora elite) is a similar color with silver accents, but sadly it’s from 2010 when they thought 700x32 was all you needed. It converted to 650x42 pretty well but the fender is a real wonky fit because the stays were never designed for a fender that wide.
Always wanted to ride a Renegade
I think published clearance for this thing is 50mm on a 700c wheel. 35mm max with fenders but I’ve got so much room I think I could do a 38 no problem. Tires on there are GP5000 ASTR that are just under 32mm after a few hundred miles.
It’s a really nice bike that I can see myself holding on to for a while. Sometimes when I’m riding I’ll think I wish I had a normal light road bike again, but then like last night I’ll come up on wet or salted roads and remember that a bike with fenders is the best thing ever.
Ahem
But for real now you got me wondering what I could shove into the Aurora Elite without fenders.
