surreal

ok, let's say you wanna run some lowriders, in conjunction with fenders. obviously, you're gonna want some bosses about midway up the forks; question is, do you need one or 2 sets of eyelets down at the dropouts?

thanks in advance,
-rob

Cyclist0094

Two would be nice but very few bikes have 2 anymore. with one eyelet you put the rack eye closest to the boss and then the fender strut. make sure the fender strut is inside of the rack loop. zip tie the fender strut and rack together if they rattle against each other

NoReg

Most fenders ae designed with one set of front wires, or a pair, but in either case they attach to one point on the bike, the lower eyelet. This is the same eyelet used for the rack, so it doesn't mater whether your bike comes with one or two eyelets. There are fenders that have an additional wire from the front of the fork, and this wire can be routed to the top eyelet, if you have one, but none of the fenders I considered desireable where so equipt. In the rear it does work out well to have two eyelets, forward for rack, rear for fender, though they could be ganged up also.

What I did for my forward fender was weld the wire, minus eyelet to a piece of 1/8" stainless stock. That piece acts as a washer to the rack so there isn't any posibility of the rack coming loose after spreading the fender eyelet. It's just a little detail, it's easy to do if you weld or braze. A possibly better solution is to install fender eyelets on your racks, I will give that a try soon.

nm+

My racks had mounts for my rack so it didn't matter. This set up alls makes packing much easier. I just remove the rack and teh fender comes off with it, so the frame fits in the box.
Install is just 4 screws instead of 7 or more.