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fair comments.
I guess the profile of the tyre / frame / guard varies quite a bit.
in my case the sks edge were a great fit but as you said, the stays inside the guards do limit the tyre size.
I did consider making my own stays and flipping the clip so they mount on the outside, but deffo not something that should have to be done. a bit of a weird design decision IMO
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Meant to say that I was fitting to a carbon gravel bike with chunky tubes. Would have been way easier on something like my old cross check with skinny steel tubes. I like the square look so glad they worked out for you.
Think the stay fitting approach was maybe moved across from their bluemels range. But as you say doesn't make as much sense the way they did it on the edge
Momentum
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