Hi Everyone,
This is my 1986 Miyata Six Ten and I'm having an issue with mounting and clearance with the front fender.
Here are the relevant facts:
– I bought this as a complete bike from it's original owner in what I believe to be it's original configuration without fenders (last photo).
– These are Velo Orange 45mm fenders
– The tires have been updated from the original 35mm x 700c Miyata tires (dry rotted) to 38mm x 700c Panaracer Pasela Prolite tires, inflated to 50psi
– The fender is currently mounted to the fork using a fork crown eye bolt (aka a Fork Crown Daruma). That bolt sticks out below the nut by 4.1mm and this is what's preventing the wheel from spinning freely. There is a rubber washer between the fork crown and the top side of the fender as well as the included metal reinforcement plate between the underside of the fender and the nut.
– There is not enough height on the crown of the fork to mount the fender from the outside.
What are my options? And is there anything I'm missing?
I really want to have fenders installed on this bike, and I've beat up these fenders throughout the build process to the point where I don't think I could return them. My first thought was to cut/file about 3mm of this bolt off or try to find a shorter one somewhere. Maybe going back to 35mm tires would be enough?
Thank you in advance for you help,
Chris
by Funny_Particular5085
3 Comments
> My first thought was to cut/file about 3mm of this bolt off or try to find a shorter one somewhere. Maybe going back to 35mm tires would be enough?
Both of these are good ideas.
EDITed to mean, I’d file down that bolt and also consider going back to 35mm tires.
VO says their 45mm fenders will “work with tires up to 35mm wide.” Not sure 35s will clear that bolt though; I’d want more than a few mm even if they do.
>There is not enough height on the crown of the fork to mount the fender from the outside.
So what you can do is to install a spacer between the mounting bracket and the fork, in order to move the mounting bracket away from the fork enough to where the bracket clears the headset.
Also, in your photo #5, you should flip the bracket around so that the slotted side mounts to the fork, and the side with the hole mounts to the fender.