Longboard fenders with Schwalbe Marathon 700x38

[Scotty]

I have a 59 cm AHH with side pull brakes and the fender tire set up in the title. Technically this set up does work. With the bike in the stand I get clearance for the fenders, which I must say look beautiful, but out on the road any vibration and braking causes the fenders to contact the tires just slightly. Not enough to slow me down or even cause a noticeable resistance but just enough to make one of those annoying sounds that I hate to hear when riding. I cannot seem to adjust this out. Maybe it is just nitpicky and it probably shouldn’t bother me but it does. It doesn’t make sense to me to replace 80 dollars worth of tires for 40 dollars worth of fender so I have decided to remove the fenders. If I get to the point where I want to replace the tires I will go with something a little narrower and put the fenders back on, but it may be a while because I have yet to wear out a pair of Marathons.

 

This is not a big issue for me because I have my Surly with fenders and if the weather looks like I may need fenders it will give me a good reason to ride that bike, but if I was ordering again I would go with slightly narrower tires like maybe the 700x35.  I have read before that Schwalbe sizes their tires a little different than other brands so maybe someone using a different brand with these fenders can add some experience.

[Lyle Bogart]

Scotty,

On my Atlantis I've run the Schwalbe Marathon Plus 700x38 and currently use the Schwalbe Marathon XR 700x38, both wit the regular SKS fenders (like the look of those longboards!). I also had the benign though annoying rubbing at times. I fixed this by re-bending the strut tabs (the tabs the struts run through to anchor to the fender) a bit. Close to the fender, I bent then ~90 degrees out and then turned the ends back down to receive the struts. Bought me a few millimeters and a whole lot of quiet.

Hope this helps,

lyle

On 7 August 2011 21:26, Scotty <bong...@verizon.net> wrote:

I have a 59 cm AHH with side pull brakes and the fender tire set up in the title. Technically this set up does work. With the bike in the stand I get clearance for the fenders, which I must say look beautiful, but out on the road any vibration and braking causes the fenders to contact the tires just slightly. Not enough to slow me down or even cause a noticeable resistance but just enough to make one of those annoying sounds that I hate to hear when riding. I cannot seem to adjust this out. Maybe it is just nitpicky and it probably shouldn’t bother me but it does. It doesn’t make sense to me to replace 80 dollars worth of tires for 40 dollars worth of fender so I have decided to remove the fenders. If I get to the point where I want to replace the tires I will go with something a little narrower and put the fenders back on, but it may be a while because I have yet to wear out a pair of Marathons.

 

This is not a big issue for me because I have my Surly with fenders and if the weather looks like I may need fenders it will give me a good reason to ride that bike, but if I was ordering again I would go with slightly narrower tires like maybe the 700x35.  I have read before that Schwalbe sizes their tires a little different than other brands so maybe someone using a different brand with these fenders can add some experience.

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