djb

Hi, figured more people here would have put fenders on Tricross's.

Rode last summer on my 2010 without fenders, meant to get them on and just never got around to it. Today got the rear on fine, but in tackling the front have run into a problem and am wondering how any of you dealt with the front brake bracket anti-shudder doohickey.

For those familiar, the bolt that runs through the fork and that holds on the anti-shudder brace, doesnt go all the way out of the back--so you can not put a fender bracket over or through this bolt (as it doesnt stick out)
-also the rear tightening nut/thing that goes onto this bolt is a specific shape, and fits "over" the bolt with threaded bits inside tightening down.

I would be grateful for any Tricross owners to divulge how you improvised a front fender.

being a carbon fork, I dont see how just running a much longer bolt through the fork would deal with this, as the area for the tightening is recessed into the back of the fork.

thanks in advance for ideas. Have stuck this up in Commuting also.

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https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...s-for-tricross

djb

thanks 10, as this is my first carbon anything, my concerns were about the back of fork, where the orig bolt comes out. You can see that they designed the special rear "nut" (imagine a toilet paper roll, threaded on the inside, closed at one end with a 4mm or 5mm hex end) to not put pressure on teh actual carbon part of the fork, and as I can figure looking into cavity that there is an inset threaded metal sleeve in there (but it doesnt extend all the way out as the recessed rear "hole" must just be all carbon.

thanks again for the reference, I will follow these fellows example, but I will be careful about the back of the fork, really from inexperience with carbon.

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Post a pic when you get it finished.