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Old 01-22-07, 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by georgiaboy
If you commute on a road bike steel frame the clip-ons are the only ones you can install. Correct? Nothing else is narrow enough to pass through to the other side in order to have full coverage.
In me experience it's just the opposite: steel frames are made of thinner tubes and therefore have greater clearance than Al or CF frames. This isn't the closest shot, but you can see that I was able to get a set of full coverage SKS Chromoplastic fenders on my Trek 660.


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