Winter Road Bikes

Stroma

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Just finished building this Kinesis R2 up with some scribes and swapped a few bits out, looking forward to trying it on 32s

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Is this the bdhu thread?

Be nice

Sorted a puncture on the winter bike tubeless earlier on, in doing so noticed a massive slash across the tyre that I don't know how I did, and that all the alloy nipples on the back wheel are corroded and crumbling to dust... Yay! So won't be riding that tomorrow 😔😒

Better you discovered it at home, rather than the freezing cold in the middle of nowhere :-)

Winter bike 😌
Has been seeing some hours recently!

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Nice! Did you make the little light mount or is that a standard thing from Exposure?

Very good point! 😁

Used a cantilever pad spacer, go pro attachment from Exposure, spare QR attachment from my mudguards

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So best 700x50 mudguards in black?

Can’t find them in metal. Would be happy with GB.

Are any modern alternatives any good? To go on a modern alu bike with di2, to let you know vibe.

Nice. Are they 11 speed brake calipers?

PDW are great, they do 45 and 55. Very easy to fit and adjust, great quality.

I'm halfway through installing some Pelago 700x55 mudguards on my gravel bike. Much better than than the SKS Edge I had on there before. And decent value compared to some of the others I looked at.

I second PDW. Expensive, but the quality and fit is spot on. V easy to install so you gain back hours of your life when fitting them, all in I think they're good value.

Been a fun winter on this 91' titanium Spectrum from Tom Kellog.

Will eventually be a little prettier.

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what gives the pelago the edge over the sks?

Kinesis Fend-Off are great, albeit a little fiddly to mount but looks good and very sturdy when fitted and come with free mudflaps you can cut out and use if you want. They now do a wide version too that fits up to 700x50!tyres. Usually about £45-50 so cheaper than PDW as well. (Although PDW are obviously great if moneys no object)

Thanks.

Will investigate.

I would second fend offs. Pdws are better, the stays you don't need to trim in particular, but they are not "twice the price" better

I would have to disagree and say that PDW are twice the price better. I have used a lot of guards and found that the PDW’s are the most round. Kinda like how less expensive chainrings are often manufactured to less of a tolerance. Means you can fit them under very little to no tension.

The mounting hardware is also very good.

Very neat! I use those PDW axle adapters on my Thorn which has the bosses for the front guard half way down the fork leg instead of at the dropouts. It’s a bit weird and I’m never sure why some forks have the bosses up so high.

Biggest thing was the shape. The SKS are very square and were super tricky to fit to my frame - the gap between the tyre and frame is roundish and so a square guard didn't really fit.

Also the mounting hardware. The SKS stay goes inside the mudguard and so takes up a lot of space. And fits with a little plastic clip and silicone spacer. The whole lot came unclipped in the woods and I lost the spacer. Then lost both clip and spacer from the other guard.

Pelagos guards have none of these issues, were hassle free to fit and cost me €55, so value is decent

The newer (2018) 11 speed calipers give an extra 1 or 2mm clearance over the older 2015 ones, and a rounder shape. Enough that I can get 28mm Conti GP5000 under SKS guards on my Thorn. Pretty decent clearance for standard reach brakes. The placement of the brake hole on the frame / fork obviously has to be correct though, pads at bottom of slots etc.

Is it common for PDW's to come with a slight twist? I installed some of the 45mm guards a while ago and both the front and back are slightly off, not the end of the world but it's quite annoying given the price.

Adjusting the fixing points doesn't seem to make a difference, anyone got any tips to straighten them out?