Half links
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Gordy
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Sweet bike man, but you really should take those fenders off. They will inevitably fail and do tons of damage...
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But as far as the half link goes, it's likely snagging a little on the pin. You can pull the coder pin out and just mushroom the end of the pin. It might not be ideal doing that, but it'll get you the clearance
Ill admit I was warned...
Just to start off with, fenders look sick, but they come at a price. I love the look of fenders on a bike, and I would love to keep them, but I should have taken the 5 or 10 minutes to reinforce mine. My bike is an older Huffy Newport. It's an amazing frame, and it has fenders. I was headed...
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But as far as the half link goes, it's likely snagging a little on the pin. You can pull the coder pin out and just mushroom the end of the pin. It might not be ideal doing that, but it'll get you the clearance
Yes, Please take off the stock fenders, they WILL break off on you and this is one of the things that could happen to you and the bike...Read the story and see the pics...We don't want this to happen to you.
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Safety - Beware the fenders!!!
Don't take the warning lightly!!!!!! My son in law is in the hospital in critical condition cause of the fender getting into the tire and rolling around till it locked the front wheel and threw him over the bars. Of course he wasn't wearing a helmet:helmet: This just happened Wednesday. Here's...
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Use a dremel and a double cut burr and clearance the spots it's hitting or follow Gordy's suggestion. I personally hate half-links.
Gordy
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Sometimes you can't avoid them.
I ALWAYS avoid them.
Very happily for me, I do avoid them as well...It's all about the height and angling of the motor and the distance and alignment between the drive sprocket and the rear sprocket as well as the 36 tooth size of that sprocket, etc. etc, etc...It's all mathematics, geometry, etc.
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