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Belagerent-
What's the clarence like with the guards?
Pretty good.
The tyres are 2.35” and the guards are the 75mm version.
Clearance around the tires could maybe be slightly better but I don’t foresee too many problems.
SKS provides a sort of rubber spacer for between the guard and stays but I’ve got Bluemel styles on another bike and so does Mrs M_V and we’ve ditched these pieces as they hang down into the space between guard and tyre and collect mud and leaves so I didn’t fit them on this either.
I was slightly concerned about the flat guards fitting up against the curved bridges on the frame (there’s not loads of room in the frame, the fork is fine) but I’ve used one spacer on the seatstay bridge and two on the chainstay bridge and they are all good.
M_V
I posted in here that I was thinking about getting a Spa Rove, well, I did and it turned up today.
Knowing it was imminent I’d taken my wheels to work to seat the tyres with the airline there (swapping from massive knobblies to something a bit better suited to the grav).
Was going to chuck all the 1 x 10 stuff from my hardtail on out but the chain and gear cable were too short (kinda surprising as this seems a lot shorter than my mtb but routing is different) so I figured that was the singlespeed gods telling me something.
I went for a real cheap Trans X 70mm drop post from Merlin as I wasn’t going to have room for the 200mm drop post I have, but it turns out it has a bit of suspension too. Not sure if it’s intended or what but might be useful for gravel riding? I think it is intentional as the upper but doesn’t drop all the way down and it has the suspension action when dropped where posts I’ve had that have started getting a bit bouncy as they get gubbed have been solid when dropped.