Now that the snow and ice is starting to melt, I picked up a set of Planet Bike fenders for the 1980 Royale. The clearance of the touring frame makes it an ideal candidate for fenders AND 27 x 1 3/8 knobbies. But the supplied bolts are too small for the dropout eyelets; they pass right through.
Now I wouldn't have been as surprised to find this on an obscure italian frame or some such thing, but on a production japanese frame from the eighties??? Has the standard thread size for eyelets changed over the years?
Before I roll my bike into the metric bolt section of Home Depot and start test fitting, I thought I'd throw out this bit of trivia and see what our experts say: What is the thread size for the fender eyelets on a 1980 Fuji Royale?