Mudguards

My experience with my Curanas was pretty mixed. They don't do a great job keeping your feet dry and the aluminium failed where there rear stay attaches to the plastic clip (which also got loose over time causing an annoying rattle)

I want a pair of 35mm smooth ally 'guards
Can't afford or wait for Honjo and VO don't make them anymore.
I'd settle for the VO 37mm smooth but out of stock at Freshtripe and Tokyo fixed. Anyone have a lead?

Freshtripe website seems to think they have stock.

Ed, total weight of the Curana is 331g, the vast majority of that weight is in the fixings:

So the extra weight you've saved worth having side splash then.

Any suggestions to make a Planet Bike clip on fender like this:

Fit on the rear stays of a Cannondale like this:

They stays are too bloody steep!

What I did on my Alpina fork because it is too steep too.

But maybe your frame is so much steeper that it won't work.

So the extra weight you've saved worth having side splash then.

I'm tempted to grab a Ti bolt kit off eBay.

Skully, Freshtripe website says pre order on all mudguards except 45mm stainless VO ones and 36mm Honjos (£86)
Practical Cycles has 40mm Stainless Giles Berthoud ones for £45.

But I've just done an excellent trade with Ed so now have the 37mm VO ones, which is what I wanted. .

Cheers Ed, good to meet you.
Stick the Salmons on the scale too?

By the way Dammit, be glad you didn't get the Salmon Profil, they're surprisingly heavy, thick and barely enough to cover a 25c tyres.

Will do, hold on.

538g.

By the way Dammit, be glad you didn't get the Salmon Profil, they're surprisingly heavy, thick and barely enough to cover a 25c tyres.

I ordered a pair of them as well, going to see which suit the bike more.

538g.

Irons hands

Can you even lift the Salmon Profil?

I had to fucking get off and remove my front wheel today, after what turned into a 15 minute trudge (mainly on foot) along a bridleway. Thick clay mud that wouldn't shed once I was back on the road, and appeared to be starting to get baked on due to friction heat from my tyre. Very resistant to being removed, even after a full-scale attack with a stick.

Ode To A Venetian Mudguard, or something.

CSB WARNING!

Winchester is on chalk, this is not something you think of too often, apart from when the soil has been removed (Twyford Down/M3, general river bank maintenance etc), when the surface turns into a fiercely adhesive mud that could hold the insulation tiles onto the space shuttle.

I cycled through a patch once and it stuck to the wheel in a 2" thick layer- it looked as though if I could have kept going it'd have created a Swiss Roll style chalky-mud based dessert.

I'm tempted to grab a Ti bolt kit off eBay.

Too heavy. Plastic bolts should be more than man enough to hold mudguards on. Much cheaper too.

Neil, is the stay made of steel or alu?

I don't know but from the weight I would think steel

Worth replacing them for an alu version? The Salmon's stay were steel and probably contributed to the extra weight of the mudguards.

Sent from the US?

That was an example, Freshtripe have some in stock.

In fact I would suggested going for an eyelets bolt to go along with the VO stay, much more sturdier too.

Just checked with a magnet and no-stick, however it they are stainless steel that's not going to work.

How does one discern whether a metal is aluminium or stainless steel?

From the look of it, it's probably steel.

Edit - they're steel, just read a customer's review about how diffcuilt it is to cut the length (alu are much easier to cut and bend).

So the guards that I got from ed had been drilled at the brake bridge.
My brake bridge is in a different place (taller frame)
So now I'm going to have a visible hole -so to speak.
I'm planning on making a reinforcing piece to cover the hole
Like this kinda; http://farm1.staticflickr.com/242/449377317_d646cbfc6a_z.jpg?zz=1
Because it has a compound curve (two directions) it'd be easiest to cut it from an old alu mudguard.
Anyone have one I can cut up?

I don't remember a hole on the rear mudguard, are you putting the front 'guard on the rear?