I don’t have room for any more bikes!
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Not with that attitude
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It’s been a dry year so far but I’m thinking about how I can keep this up if the rain comes back. What’s everyone’s favorite fender to clear a knobby 26x2.2" (Conti RaceKing)?
VO 60mm is too narrow, I think (and also has been out of stock forever). Jan/Honjo 74 is vspendy and also silver only (I’d really prefer black). Simworks/Honjo Smooth 74 and Flat 80 are black but somehow even spendier than Jan, and also only come in 650B sizes so I would have to re-radius… Any other obvious choices that I’m missing?
Just some good ol’ SKS? The Bluemel for 26” goes up to 2.1…so a 2.2 should probably work with some attention to the mounting distances.
I just picked up a pair of the biggins for 27.5 and they seem reasonably stiff with the aluminum strips inside the plastic.
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Soma has Tanaka fenders in 26" 68mm: Tanaka Fenders | Soma Fab Shop
I’ve installed a set and they are great.
+1 for SKS, I’ve got some P65 Longboards that have been working pretty okay with 2.35" Big Apples. The fender line is not the most majestic but that may different on another bike (and easier to work out with smaller tires)
RIP to the longboards. If you’re wanting better coverage than the regular Bluemels have, some models have a style variant with plastic flaps attached. But it looks like they don’t offer that in 26"
oo, would be a great option… if they were in stock. I will put them on the list as I think more about this
I had some SKS fenders years ago and recall not being impressed, but maybe I’ll give them another shot. Hard to argue with the price…
If you want coverage then you can always buy two plastic sets, do rear fender front and rear wheels and use the surplus front fenders to extend where needed. Still cheaper than exy fancypants metal ones…
I take back whatever good I said about SKS fenders. I finished installing some Bluemels B75s this weekend and holy hell, the fender stay attachment points on the underside of the fender is the worst.
Trying to line up the fender line means it rides a few mm from the tire surface, and bumping it out far enough makes the whole thing wonky due to pinch points at the fork or seat stays. Maybe that’s just the name of the game at the extreme end of large size options.
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If you have these then it isn’t fair to blame the fenders IMO.
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That’s fair, but they’re only pinch points due to the additional distance from the tire these need over a normal fender where the stay attaches to the top (just the height of a nut).
There’s about 18mm of clearance between the tire and fender edge here, but the fender stay attachment point/bracket thing is closer. (Not to mention the weird bend the stay makes as it comes out from under the fender.)
This is all to say, I should have just bought the Simworks Honjo Flat 80s.
Oh, wow. I take back my victim blaming, that is terrible design, I’ve never seen an Sks set like that.
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EEW! that is awful.
The old style Bluemels had a (far more expensive) stay setup with a riveted flat internal bracket and machined draw nuts that was much better for clearance (ISTR drilling out the rivets once, reprofiling the bracket and mounting it externally and pop riveting it from the inside to gain a scooch more clearance.) I scavenged a bunch of those brackets and nuts from ex factory bikes years back.
My H/G has the older style bluemels, 700x wide, curved carefully with a lot of stay wrangling to mid fork mount on the front and clear the rear caliper
Choosing plastic fenders is self-harming behavior.
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Plastic fenders are fine (or would be if they were 650b sized)
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(“Body seems unclear”? Suck a dick, discourse!)
They’re not fine I’ve you can’t get the right size