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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
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I'm halfway through installing some Pelago 700x55 mudguards on my gravel bike. Much better than than the SKS Edge I had on there before. And decent value compared to some of the others I looked at.
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Thanks v much. Looks like a great option
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Love the bike. Slightly random question but what pedals are they?
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Turns out they still make it - it's called the Tempo. There's a photo on their website of the dropouts and the set up with mudguards https://www.condorcycles.com/products/condor-tempo-frameset?variant=45755739504961
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I think Condor at one point made a fixed gear frameset with horizontal dropouts precisely for this reason, as the frame was designed for commuting/audax with mudguards. I had a Surly crosscheck set up fixed like this and it worked well.
As @hollow__legs says you end up with a gap at the front of the mudguard which doesn't look great. Velo Orange make a spring loaded nut and bolt to help - it holds the mudguard close to the tyre and then you can push against the spring if you need to remove the wheel https://velo-orange.com/products/spring-thing?srsltid=AfmBOoqZPrGmxj8zFrNDAFMahqMMoeH5FiIpwL2FKOM43NBh8PJqVQup
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I've run my cross check like this for ages - works really well. Along with swiss stop pads in the rear canti to maximise its fairly dubious braking power
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Those wheels are perfect with that paint
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