So, I'm in the middle of trying to fit mudguards onto the Croix and find the disc brakes are going to be problematic. There's plainly not room for the stays on the brake side.
Anyone got tips/experience/tidings of despair?
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Mudguards Versus Disc Brakes
(14 posts)- Started 11 years ago by Uberuce
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Yeah I managed this with some cunning bending of the stays. A vise helps and a bit of patience. I fitted a pair of SKS to my revolution courier and they looked the biz. If you want to have a look at them they are off the bike and sitting in my garage. You may be able to use 'em as some form of template....
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a photo to help mental imagining of the problem?
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I had the same issue on the tandem. A bit of bending does the trick. The guard stays on my Ute came pre-bent at an aesthetically pleasing angle.
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I didn't use the black plastic safety bits though....
Asking for trouble. Friend of mine got a nasty cut to the cheekbone, (he was lucky, could have broken his jaw) riding across the meadows, due to fall on face caused by twig/front mudguard jam. He'd taken off the safety clips...
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Unlucky !! That would never happen to me! ;-)
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My commuter has discs and mudguards - the shop fitted them and used spacers (20mm?) and long bolts to provide some clearance and reduce the amount of bending required.
As with RDNA, I'm happy to offer the Norco as a template. Just checked and the Pino is no help - it has an appropriately designed rear frame to clear the caliper, whilst the front 'guard is fitted with large p-clips as the fork has no bosses.
Robert
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The deed is finally done, after as much swearing as Mark in TBC predicted.
I've had to compromise and take the brake-side safety clips off - simply no way they'd fit otherwise. Hopefully the fact the right sides are still breakaway will stop clogging disasters.
I'll take a picture of them tomorrow out at Bo'Ness. Right now I'm heartily sick of the sight of them.
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When I fitted mudguards to SWMBO's CdF, I bent them in the same plane (so I didn't need to make two bends as in recombodna's images). Assuming your fork is identical, the stays on the left should be long enough to do this too.
Give me a second to take a photo...
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Here: they would still lie flat on the floor, I just got vice grips and put a gentle bend as needed to clear the caliper:
As you can see, the release is still attached. I've also been saved a messy off by these (along the side of the A90 a few years back - sudden thump, caved in mudguard stays but no crash).
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All of which has explained to me why these clever people at Focus fix their mudguards to the inside of the stays.
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Hurk, too late to use the same-plane idea, Dave, but I doubt there would have been the length in the stays. Either those are BB-5's or they've changed the design on BB-7's, but I'd need a longer detour on mine. I am tempted to try it on the rear wheel, since it's likely to hit the ground first during a Failure to Unclip.
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They're Shimano somethingorothers. Interesting that it doesn't work on Avids (the BB5 and BB7 are basically identical, barring the onside pad adjust dial)
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