Mudguards

Only as a last resort, best to have it on the bottom, rather than mid (less likely to go wrong if something get caught).

Any recommendations for a bike with no eyelets? Girlfriend would like mudguards and pannier rack for her bike, so looking for a set you can attach to the brakes and axle. Or are the guards with the straps to wrap around the seat stays ok?

P clips and tubus QR kit. The mounting is hardly the issue, is there enough space for them at the fork crown, seat stays and chain stays?

I bent my GB guard last week going down a kerb too slowly. Mudflaps are great but they need to be really low to work and then bending possibility is doubled or tripled or more. #maths

Chromoplastics, Longboards or similar (I'd like to know what guard @tommmmmmm & @TM are talking about for £16) do have advantages: they're tough, and they don't bend/dent.

I'm not sure how tough people have found PDWs really.

My son's GBs have sustained quite a few dents, and the bike is really not getting that much use/abuse.

You need flappier flaps

My Gb's are covered in dents and the front has a slight bend. They have seen some miles but no idea how it has occurred as I am pretty precious about my bikes.

Looks like I don't know enough to even know what the potential issues could be :(

So I need to check that there's enough space on the brake bolt for the guards and rack - I'll need to hunt for examples.

Thanks for the hints, think a chat at my LBS is in order.

Cracked Chromoplastics and VO fenders in the past. PDW seem to be holding up but wouldn't have paid £70 for them. Wish they had rolled edges or something to channel the water out of them, even with good flaps there still seems to be quite a bit of crap deposited on the bike (not feet thankfully)

If you are in London I cant recommend SBC cycles enough.

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/sks-bluemels-road-mudguard-set/

@TM Aha, thnx. Bluemels, yep they are a bargain.

Cracked Chromoplastics and VO fenders in the past.

Yep I've heard this a lot. I've never really had this happen I don't think. Maybe I need to actually ride the bike.

Toughest guard I found is still the GB.

The SKS don't bent much, but they do crack over time.

Thanks very much, they're close to me too!

Have a set of (almost) new Crud MII guards for sale if anyone's keen.. £10 with box etc.. PM me.

Regarding PDW 45mm city mudguards, their website says maximum tyre it can accommodate is 35mm, has anyone used larger tyres without any issues? Aka 38mm or 40mm?

It depend on your clearance, the only way to get more clearance is simply set the mudguard further away from the tyres.

If you want to fit bigger, just get some GB 50mm or 60mm long mudguard.

With the SKS longboards, should the front mudguard bracket attach at the front or rear of the fork crown? The instructions with the mudguard seem to show it should be attached at the rear, as do the instructions on the Mason site, but with the Mason it doesn't seem to have a conventional brake bridge hole, (it appears to be blanked off at the front) and I can't see how that'd work if using a traditional rim brake sunken nut thing attached to an M6 bolt/front caliper bolt.

Am I being thick?

I'm guessing you don't have that bike at hand?
Your options will become clear once you have it, but generally fenders are meant to be mounted behind the fork.
One thing I don't get is the insistence of many online how-tos to leave the struts untrimmed. If you trim them to a proper length there will be no need for rubber caps and there will be no danger of pokery.

The Mason may have a threaded hole?

I don't have the bike with me at the mo', no. I offered the front mudguard up to the rim brake mount hole thing front and back, both sides looked like they'd work (this is on a disc brake bike with capability to take rim brakes instead).

The issue is, if I were to be using a rim brake, there's no way I could mount it behind the fork, as the hole in the bracket isn't wide enough for this:

to fit through it.

If I fit it in front, I can have the above brake nut in the back, and an M6 bolt through from the front holding the bracket in place. If I were using rim brakes I'd have to do it like this but with brake bolt instead of M6, right? With disc brakes I either run it like this, or have an even longer bolt running all the way through with a regular nut, washer and the bracket on the back holding it in place. Bit of a messy solution.

If the hole goes all the way through and it's open underneath the fork, a daruma might work.

You should be able to fit it with a normal bolt, just email Mason themselves.

On regard to the brake bolt not fitting - dremel.

Soz Ed, I've not got a Mason, that's just as an example of it fitting behind the fork. I've got Kinesis 4S disc.

Might dremel it to fit a brake bolt, was just wondering why SKS would instruct you to fit it behind the fork and not make the slot in the bracket wide enough to do so?

And @withered_preacher, it's not got a hole underneath the crown, that'd make things easier though.

I imagine SKS is still thinking mostly old school.
Too bad about the lack of hole, is that a structural thing with crabon forks?