Mudguards

Thanks. I'll check then out. I'll be running 34mm tyres (although clearance is up to 38mm).

Ah, I think the AR does have bigger clearance. Should be plenty!

Thank crunchy for longboards. 35km of wet muddy shitty roads and my shorts are still dry.

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Does anyone know anywhere that has any stock of 26x60 Gilles Berthoud guards, preferably in short?

Bikeradar journos would have you use this hack to fit mudguards without eyelets. Ta Jack 👋🏾

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I'd worry about that taking the paint off! Might be worth a wrap of electrical tape or something? Quite a neat bodge though.

Maybe, but it’s fairly snug and I can’t see it moving a great deal anyway (maybe like a mm up or down from road vibrations?). I’ll see how it goes. Besides it was a finicky job that I don’t fancy doing again 😅

what does one do where there should be a hole at the top of the fork? (if it was a caliper brake fork eg) I’m in the same boat. Have an awful pair of ‘flingers’ atm

Managed to shoehorn these onto the Allday the other day, just about fit with a bit of tweaking. Ready for some grimy business

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Went from 700x35 to 27.5x1.9 under 45mm bluemels on the dadbike - pushing the limit of what's socially acceptable but it'll do for now

Had to spread the mounts slightly but clearance seems fine after a quick gravaux spin, have my eye on the 50mm Kinesis fend-offs but these will do for now.

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Clean - what 'guards are those?

Always liked shiny black mudguards on a shiny black bike, my bike above used to be all black on black & I think I preferred it like that

Thanks, they're Mpart, fit nice and sturdy. Think the rear tyre is a tad too big for this set up but we'll see

One wonders what the point of plastic mudguards is at all. Even my face is not particularly clean. Mud both front And rear.

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One wonders what the point of short plastic mudguards is at all

ftfy

They're to take the edge off the worst of the mud and stones when you're mtbing on muddy trails so it doesn't go in your face/up your back and back of your head.

They're not designed to do anything about dirty water.

That’s what I meant, tbh, an oversimplification born out of having to comb gritty water out of my eyebrows for ten minutes

Mine was more of a rhetorical question, but yeah they do that pretty damn well. If only I could reconcile my touring/commuting self (full mudguards with flaps) and my mountain bike/ATBing self (short plastic guards, anything else would probably snag and ground).

What would you recommend for the stayer? Looking at you @vthejk? I'm running 650b at the moment.
Also want the ability to take em off when the time is right.

Hi Musa!! 👋🏾👋🏾 we should do that Chaiwala audax sometime, it would be a good day out. I’ve got Velo Orange wavy guards on mine, though dunno about taking them on and off. I suppose the taking off is not particularly hard, but they take some time to align and I’d feel bad removing them! Mine stay on 24x365. With added flaps on they stop pretty much everything coming from the ground.

They’re on the pricey end of the spectrum though - I think other forum users have used 55mm wide SKS Bluemels equally well?

Looking forward to seeing your mudguarded-up Stayer!

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Thank you. It's definitely on the table just trying think of a date.
Half term or Dec holidays

On the search now

I always seem to have problems with vertical clearance of my guards, usually around the brake bridge: what are the lowest profile guards or people's tips for addressing this?

Guards fitted. Turns out probably have room for the 38mm full metal fenders so may upgrade as not much clearance. Will see how they go on an audax tomorrow.

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Surely given your name you should be fitting Daniel Salmon mudguards, no?

Very tidy. Had considered something similar with a velcro mount, but never got around to working out how to fit it to the mudguard

Custom built frame with the brake bridge a few millimetres higher (well, that's what I go for), or smaller tyres.