Mudguards....do you use them ?
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Tried them on my commuter hardtail. Pretty effective although I need to shim the back one as it moves around. Think it prefers a thicker seatpost than 27.2mm.
CassidyAce
Senior Retro Guru
It's a 'No' to mudguards from me—for reasons already outlined: catching the wind, rattling, looking ugly. Additionally, my clothes and I are going to return sweaty and in need of a wash anyway, so some mud doesn't really make any difference. I understand why some commuters will want mudguards but that's about it.
I never bothered.....till very recently. I poped a pair of reasonable quality ones i inherited onto my allroad touring thing.....actually I'm pretty sold on them now. I'm only greenlaning, but I and the bike came back cleaner, especially over winter.
I wouldn't put them on an " offroad" kinda bike, as they would definitely be in the way / get caught on bushes etc, but its horses for courses.
I wouldn't put them on an " offroad" kinda bike, as they would definitely be in the way / get caught on bushes etc, but its horses for courses.
novocaine
Old School Grand Master
Ph no, you shouldn't put them on horses.
benjabbi
Bontrager Fan
After 20 odd years of 'no way am I putting those ugly things on my bike' I finally succumbed for a shit weather commuter a couple of years ago, when Planet X were doing full SKS guards for £8. They still look shit, rattle like hell when you take a hand off the bar and I still get wet feet, although a mudflap should sort that, just not got round to it. I'll take all that though, getting to work with a dry arse is great! 
I wouldn't use them offroad though, it's clay round here they'd clog up in no time, it stops wheels moving without them, I can only imagine it would be worse with them fitted.
I wouldn't use them offroad though, it's clay round here they'd clog up in no time, it stops wheels moving without them, I can only imagine it would be worse with them fitted.
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Road never use them, because I only ride on road when the weather is good.
Off road just the crud catcher type.
Touring bike/Retro MTB, full SKS.
Off road just the crud catcher type.
Touring bike/Retro MTB, full SKS.
Betsy
Old School Grand Master
I bought my Honjo's from Circles in Nagoya.. i also bought a load of spares too, replacement leather washers, spacers ect.. just because they're so much cheaper directly from JP.. the Surly forks have quite a bit of clearence so i would have had to modify their daruma to maintain equal clearances, so i didn't buy one.. while i was waiting for FedEx i thought.. y'know, i can make something much more pleasing to the eye so i cut a piece of aluminium bar..
..turned it up in my little Boxford and drilled a hole through the center
..tapped a starnut in..
..dropped the spacer in
.. bolted the mudguard through the spacer into the starnut.. genius.. thought i
..much nicer than exposed threads.. pfft! stupid cyclists, they've been doing it all wrong for years.. why used a daruma when you can do this?
I put the wheel on and the mudguard was massively eccentric.. ahh!? so that's why
.. i resorted to the L-bracket
I call myself an engineer y'know
..turned it up in my little Boxford and drilled a hole through the center
..tapped a starnut in..
..dropped the spacer in
.. bolted the mudguard through the spacer into the starnut.. genius.. thought i
..much nicer than exposed threads.. pfft! stupid cyclists, they've been doing it all wrong for years.. why used a daruma when you can do this?
I put the wheel on and the mudguard was massively eccentric.. ahh!? so that's why
.. i resorted to the L-bracket
I call myself an engineer y'know
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dorset boy
Senior Retro Guru
I ride all year round but this January was an exception as you needed a canoe for a good part of my route. I have mudguards on an old 10 speed road bike that takes the the bad weather rides,my workshop is a cold old farm building so turning up wet is not great. Also with rain, and tractors coming out of fields onto the road after ploughing it get's pretty messy !
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