Mudguards

Hmmm thats pretty much wrong, I've had the Cruds fitted on my Rourke for a couple of months now, no rub at all.

Do you think they would be as popular as they are if the design was flawed?

Maybe go to a decent LBS and get them to have a look

Good point well made Bainbridge, but I'll be darned if I'm wheeling my bike into a LBS for something like that. It's got to be something I'm doing so I'll have to have another look. Jesus - If I can't even fit a temporary bit of plastic to keep the slush out of my crack how the hell will I cope with my first proper project? Perhaps this is why people end up buying Charge Juicers!

I've fitted a quite a few road crud guards. On some bikes they fit well on others they don't. Not a fan personally but they are defiantly bike dependant just like any mudguard.

Have you looked at the video on the crud website? Gives some extra tips etc.
Also I have heard of people being quite inventive, shaving bits of the guard off etc to get the clearance.
If your sanity can stand it then keep going and keep calm. A workstand makes a hell of a difference when doing the fitting

Crud Race Guards are Rubbish, they flex around loads and get moved about locking and leaning the bike ect. avoid!!

Crud Race Guards are Rubbish, they flex around loads and get moved about locking and leaning the bike ect. avoid!!

Thanks for that

Cheers Bainbridge. I have indeed had a look at the vids. I think I'll have those bloody brushes off first then take a stanley to them if I can't make them work. Fair play everyone for offering me feedback on what is evidently just me being a dunce. I still think they are inherently too 'flappy' though, but it's horses for courses I guess.

Has anybody fitted full guards to a Pompino? I'm looking for some guards for mine but not sure what to get. I'd rather not use raceblades if I can fit full guards but the pompino doesn't have a rear bridge to secure a rear guard to.

I have full SKS on mine - the rear wishbone thing has a threaded hole on the bottom between the stays, I just bent the bracket but you could also drill the guard and screw it directly.

I have full SKS on mine - the rear wishbone thing has a threaded hole on the bottom between the stays, I just bent the bracket but you could also drill the guard and screw it directly.

Cool, thanks for the info. Have got some crud road racers on at the moment (which are totally fine btw - no rub, easy to fit and easy to take rear wheel out too) but feels like I should fit "proper" guards as the bike has the mounts for them!

SKS Chromoplastics here. Does anyone find that they twist along their length so the clearance isn't constant? Any solutions?

No, in my experience SKS are fit and forget. If you make sure the clearance is uniform at set up, ie no having the clearance fag paper width from the tyre then you should be right. Any adjustments I have had to make are via gentle manipulation of the stay's.

I had to forego the little black protectors on the ends of the stays on my sks mudguards. Couldn't get them to fit for love nor money. fit and forget, best 35 notes I ever spent on my bike, and now hate riding with non-mud-guard people when it's wet.

Cheers Merak, I'll have a go at some stay manipulation then.

And I agree wholeheartedly about being on the wheel of someone without mudguards. Though normally it's either that or a nasty headwind.

That feeling of road spray up your shorts, after forgetting your front mudguard...

lol. Or the sound/ taste of grit and mud in your mouth...

No Ed, it's the rain, that is now on the ground. The ground isn't jumping onto you..

Had it jump into me a few times. Bastard.

In Australia the earth falls from the sky as we walk across water.. or something.

^^^sounds a bit Forest Gump to me, "One day it started raining, and it didn't quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin' rain... and big ol' fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoot, it even rained at night..."

Thats the Aussie beer for you. A dozen pints of solid English bitter, and the ground nuts you one in a painful yet honest manner.

^^^sounds a bit Forest Gump to me, "One day it started raining, and it didn't quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin' rain... and big ol' fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoot, it even rained at night..."

haha. very good.

i finally got round to putting the bluemels "popular" mudguards on the gf's bike at the weekend. didn't take too long so i wasn't that pissed off when she complained that they look horrible. they really do too. bright royal blue plastic mudguards do not go well with metallic maroon. it looks like noddy's car. was going to post it in anti-porn for a laugh but i'm too embarassed to have inadvertantly created something so fugly.

why do they keep breaking? wtf are you doing to them?

Crud Roadracer - not stylish but easy to fit and keep your backside dry.

I lost the tail section of my back mudguard. Think it clunked off when I was putting it in the shed.

But, Cruds supply replacement parts for free. You just have to send some stamps to cover postage. Now that's what I call service.

Oh no. Just checked the website. You have to pay for spare parts now
But still cheaper than buying a new set.

http://www.crudproducts.com/products/spares

Oh no. Just checked the website. You have to pay for spare parts now
But still cheaper than buying a new set.

http://www.crudproducts.com/products/spares

Prices include worldwide shipping. A colleague of mine had to pay 5€ for postage to Denmark when they were provided for free*. *Thats roughly a 50% increase, but like you said, still cheaper than a whole new set

I need to trim down the metal supports on my SKS set, but don't have a hacksaw.

This is probably a retard question, but Instead of getting one and sawing off 8 bits of metal, is there a cheap tool anyone can recommend to simply chop 'em off instead? Like a beefier cable cutter, etc...

Pipe cutter?

If you don't own one already they quite handy. Makes cutting bars down very quick.