Fenders for a NWT
05-26-25 | 05:49 PM
#26
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(above) Rene Herse: I read Bicycle Quarterly for free at my local library; full-page Rene Herse ads (same company) are quite prominent.
Gear inches: A blog online, crazyguyonabike, tours worldwide on a BF NWT, started in the low 20"s and later upgraded to 15" for the steepest areas he traversed. Also upgraded to disc brakes, trandem fork, and heavier rear triangle, I don't think he had any failures, but while he was upgrading to discs, he figured might as well go heavier duty. But his loads and most especially his weight (slender) were not at all unusual for loaded touring NWTs.
Gear inches: A blog online, crazyguyonabike, tours worldwide on a BF NWT, started in the low 20"s and later upgraded to 15" for the steepest areas he traversed. Also upgraded to disc brakes, trandem fork, and heavier rear triangle, I don't think he had any failures, but while he was upgrading to discs, he figured might as well go heavier duty. But his loads and most especially his weight (slender) were not at all unusual for loaded touring NWTs.
15 inches is wild. I'm not sure I could stay upright!
05-27-25 | 04:32 AM
#27
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BQ: Think Architectural Digest, but for bikes. My library is semi local to BQ so I don't know if they pay or he donated a subscription. Plus it gives the owner/editor/writer excuses for all-expenses-paid trips to exotic biking locales, and it seems, frequent trips to Japan, which I never realized had such a strong bike culture until I started reading BQ. France for randonneuring, etc.
15": Well it was that or him not being able to climb the hills with touring load. Reading around the forum here, that number is not unusual as a basement low for loaded touring in mountains. Me currently, 21", unloaded and moderate hills, the long ones I often need to walk up, same speed but using different muscles so it's a nice break, especially for a calf cramp. 21" and I sit and spin up. If I'm climbing standing, it's 2 cogs up from granny-low.
