Mudguards

Get the 45mm city version instead, up to 38mm and perfect for your Genesis.

The biggest tyre size I'm going to run is 28mm, so any wider than about 35mm and it's just wasted width and extra ugliness.

I bought the narrow SKS Bluemels in the end, similar to Chromoplastics but rounded, no ugly translucent strip, matt black finish and cheaper. I'm yet to fit them/have them fitted but I've seen them on other bikes and they look great.

Well yeah I wasn't going to hack apart a set of guards just for that bit.. i did go to my local hardware store but no luck..ill have another look about..

B&Q have loads of things like this. You might have to buy a pack of 5 or 10 but they won't be dear and you can always put the rest on eBay as mudguard extender dowickies for a fortune.

Good shout, i'll try and pop in over the weekend. Cheerss

If you can't find any suitable L-shaped bracket things, you can always buy strip alu/steel from B&Q too

http://www.diy.com/nav/fix/nails-screws-fixings-hardware/profile-metal-sheets-metal-rods/sheet_metal___profile_metal/-specificproducttype-flat_aluminium/Raw-Aluminium-Flat-L-1000mm-x-W-15mm-x-T-2mm-9283845?skuId=9293545

Enough for twenty or so - assuming you've got the means to saw file and drill.

If you're really stuck, let me know the dimensions you want and I'll make one: costs would amount to little more than a large letter stamp and pennies worth of metal from the offcut box. You might even find someone on here and local (to you) that could do it in a school / college workshop for free - even after Gove's interference, a foreigner (workshop terminology for unofficial outside job, not the other thing) will always take priority and be more interesting than education- one for 'Any Question Answered' maybe?

Will this do if you bend it in a vice? You can have it if you PM me your address / want to pick it up from me.

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Sorry, phone internet seems to have made that pic massive.

I've just ordered 31mm wide Honjo H33's from Milwaukee Bicycles. What a ballache to find these things!

Apparently when they arrive they're going to be an absolute pain to install too. Still... nice metal mudguards will make my commuter/beater more durable. Plastic mudguards always cause me a different kind of nightmare, especially on older frames when the fittings and sizes don't work.

Dremel or equivalent is your best friend for installation of any fender set.
DIY fittings usually fit/look better too.
Set aside an entire evening with your choice of Mantovani on the Victrola.
Install after 1 drink, before 3.

I've already been looking at Dremel's on Amazon.

I'm hoping to find mudguards to cover Schwalbe balloon tyres, I'm converting an old MTB into a relaxed beach-cruiser-ish thing.
Big Apples come in 26 x 2, 26 x 2.15 and 26 x 2.35
Fat Franks come in 26 x 2.35
Is there anything available which will comfortably cover a 2.35 width?
Currently looking at Velo-Orange, Gilles Bertoud style Stainless, but some of the flat wooden or metal ones look ok too.
Ideally I'd like to go for the widest tyres, but if that means I won't be able to fit them inside mudguards, I'll have to be a bit practical.

If flat is ok, diy alu might be the ticket.
Either rescue some old stays or buy a set and get some 1/16 or 1/8 by 2-2.5 aluminum flat bar.

You need to look beyond bicycles.

Maybe at trials bikes?

http://www.pugsley-on-patrol.org.uk/?page_id=518
http://www.tytrials.co.uk/trailandtrialsuk/prod_137190-Universal-Trials-Fender-Mudguard-Front.html

Two of those, a heat gun to help bend them a little, and a few custom brackets and you'll be good.

Weirdly... those might be way too large for you.

What's the widest tyres you reckon I can get away with on 18-23 Chromoplastics? I'll have a measure later but any chance of 25s or even 28s?

There's also these at 64mm width... which would look like skinny fenders on large wheels: https://www.ridepdw.com/goods/fenders/sodapop-fenders

And I've just found this, which looks like it would be a great rear fender for a fixed gear bike that has zero means of attaching anything: https://www.ridepdw.com/goods/fenders/excalibur-fender . Doesn't work for you though.

I was successfully using 25c on narrow road rim (Kinlin XR200) with space maybe for 28c .. would be toight

SKS market them as being suitable for 28s: http://www.sks-germany.com/?l=en&a=product&r=mudguards&i=999999999&CHROMOPLASTICS

But... it part depends on how much clearance you have under the fork and brakes to fit this in.

I have bought some matte black SKS Bluemels guards for my Genesis. I haven't fitted them yet, but they are good value and very easy on the eye compared to the Chromoplastics.

@amey @Velocio cheers, will have a look and see how much clearance I've got left. Fork and frame clearance is fine, it's a 27" to 700c conversion. Narrow rim too.

I'm tempted to try one of these (QBicle Tangent mudguard). Anyone had any experience with them?

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why?

Lightest roulette rake available at the moment.

Weight weenies gonna weenie!