Wooden mudguards

Talk to Liam, he's been making them, in his workshop down in deptford. I have his number if you can;t find him on the forum ... I think his forum ID is 'liamh' ... I think he started another thread more recently about his.

EDIT actually no he's posted later on that^ very thread. He's a sound feller, give him a shout.

Cheers!

Home-made FTW. (Though not as sexy as some of the others I'll grant you...)

@Ru - I remember seeing the thread where you mentioned making those. How do you fit them?

I've tried a couple of different methods - basically just brackets bent to fit the rear brake bridge with a bolt through.
Neither has been particularly elegant, but then I am pretty ham-fisted with this type of thing...

Will dig out a pic at some point.

Google JAIL MAKE.. a studio in deptford. They make some pretty rad fenders.

I'm surprised you didn't mention their custom framebuilding.

We make wooden mudguards with some colour added by using formica laminate on the underneath section (in the image below the colour is 'Blaze Red' on the back guard.

They are very slim so they look good on minimal bikes and they are also light.

Our 'woodguards' are handmade and the range is quite small at the moment but we will extend it after Christmas.

Let me know what you think...http://squaretreevelo.tumblr.com/

Cheers

Stacey
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I realllly like the colour on the inside of the mudguard, however I'll contact you if you have permission from site boss of the LFGSS to post such advertisement here.

'is only fair.

They actually emailed me originally because they got their own email wrong during signup.

I don't think they're spammers, even though they do a very good job at looking like it. I think they're just a bit naive in their marketing.

But, it's OK. I've had a poke around their site and I think they've got a good product, and seem to be a real small business from Edinburgh and I'd rather turn an eye every now and then and let the small guys through than just be black and white about the whole thing. So long as we catch mass spammers I'm good.

Look like I'll be sending an email, that dark wooden mudguard with the red underside really tickle my funny bones.

Two words for mudguard makers:

Compound Curve!

So has anybody made compound-curved wooden mudguards yet?

^^ What do you mean?

As in the shape isn't actually a uniform curve???

confused.

As in the mudguard wraps around the profile of the tyre.

I mean a curve that mirrors the tyre section, as well as a curve that mirrors the rim. Like proper muguards.

Nothing beats SKS chromoplastic, imo

apart from proper steel mudguard of course.

Honjo/Gilles FTW.

You're talking shit.

For a start those are alu, and second they don't shatter, which is what you'd want them to do if you get something tangled in your wheel.

Plastic ones are better. Fact.

Gilles Berthoud are stainless steel.
I fail to see how they would end up tangled in your wheel. They are securely attached, have compound curves and decent stays.
Plastic ones deteriorate in sunlight and eventually fall to bits

I've got some vintage aluminium ones I must polish up. They would look amazing. And not be heavy.

£142?!

Whilst they do look lovely, I'd be hard pushed to justify that price.

Gilles Berthoud are stainless steel.
I fail to see how they would end up tangled in your wheel. They are securely attached, have compound curves and decent stays.
Plastic ones deteriorate in sunlight and eventually fall to bits

I've got some vintage aluminium ones I must polish up. They would look amazing. And not be heavy.

They're what I have.

Been running them for, erm... 2 years now I think.

Never had anything stuck in them, the curve comes around far enough that nothing straight (a stick) could get in there. But if such a thing happened, then I'm pretty sure the only effect will be that it brakes half-suddenly. My bike is rear heavy (Rohloff), so I doubt it's going to kick me over the handlebars even if such an extremely rare thing happened.

Very happy with the Gilles.

Look like I'll be sending an email, that dark wooden mudguard with the red underside really tickle my funny bones.

Needs Louboutin spd's to go with them.

it's the alu mudguard that you need to watch out for (and plastic too), as they're trickier than the steel, the steel kept it shape pretty well, even after many abused.

my red 11 speed town bike have steel mudguard, it been hit from behind, thrown at me (by kids who doesn't think I should be on the road), mistreated when locking up, yet still kept it shape very well.

Therein beg the question; are you talking shit Skully?

(i'll give it to you about the Honjo thought as I forget they're aren't steel).