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650B mudguards - any recommendations?

Finding myself commuting on my Vitus most of the time at the moment and am growing tired of a wet bum

Just asking before I order the spendy option of the PDWs from Condor, which will be a bit more spendy than I expected as I've just realised that their Black Friday code expired last night

700c 55mm mudguard work, as the majority of frames can actually accept 700c wheels.

Would it be possible to make an Arkose 650b fixed? If so, how would I do it?

Does anyone have a Omnium CXC?

Eccentric bb to tension the chain should be enough, no?

Would it be possible to make an Arkose 650b fixed? If so, how would I do it?

magic gearing, and fixed 6 bolt cog on disc wheel.

(unless you have the singlespeed Arkose).

White Industries ENO hub maybe.
Potentially run with a rear disc brake if you use a screw 6 bolt disc adapter. Not sure if you can make the caliper sit perfect on the disc rotor tho

https://www.paulcomp.com/shop/components/hubs/rear-hubs/fixed-disk-word/

@hp93 I'm not sure if GB guards is a specific brand or something, but I'm running 700 x 50mm sks chromoplastic on my ark with room to play with. Using 38mm GK SK's if that helps

Potentially run with a rear disc brake if you use a screw 6 bolt disc adapter.

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That is not going to give any tension.

On the subject of mudguards... the mason load bearing mudguard thing. Is that only compatible with mason forks/frames or anything which is drilled for a front brake?

I won't need a rear brake, I would like proper chain tension though

Magic gearing.

Then an 135mm ENO hub is the ticket.
I have one but in 130mm

That never really is a good solution imo

Take my (other) pompino. 650b and discs are overrated!

Agreed, unless you can get it dialed to good tension on a fresh chain, and have a massive bag of sram pc1 chain off cuts, like on my nishiki lol

Great! Anyone have a small single speed arkose they want to shift :)

Sorry @pastry_bot I never got on with my pomp as much as I'd like to

Thanks, yes that helps loads! GB are Giles Berthoud (should’ve specified!)

One of my mates does.. What do you want to know?

If they're any good, and what the handling is like as the geo is pretty steep?

Yeah as it’s not easy to get the right gearing you want, but it’s not the end of the world, especially with fixed.

I think it is very nice. Much lighter than expected for a steel frameset in that price range.
I think the geo is meant to be trackbike-like, hence the steepness. It means it has a high bottom bracket, which is great for off tarmac pursuits, but you might experience toe overlap.
Very short wheelbase so highly #flickable, #nippy or whatever you want to call it.

It has horizontal drouputs with a mech hanger, but according to my mate it is very finicky to setup with gears and rear brake caliper compared to a vertical dropout.

You could consider the 8-bar Mitte Steel which has sliding dropouts and a shallower head angle instead.

It has horizontal drouputs with a mech hanger, but according to my mate it is very finicky to setup with gears and rear brake caliper compared to a vertical dropout.

Surely if you set it up with the idea that it's working as a normal dropout, you'd never need to slide the dropout/caliper around. Loctite it properly and it'd never move. I can see it'd require some work setting it up as a SS/fixed obviously.