Mud Gaurds

Bob said:

I'm just fitting a set of SKS mud guards to my commuting bike (great
instructions) and I have one question. How far from the tyre should
the mud guard be...?

Whatever you're happy with, really.

The nearer it is, the more protection you'll get from water, but also the
more likely it is to fill with mud and jam the wheel. Also have enough
clearance to allow for vibration and some slight misalignement or bending or
buckling in future.

~PB

Pete Biggs said:

Bob said:

I'm just fitting a set of SKS mud guards to my commuting bike (great
instructions) and I have one question. How far from the tyre should
the mud guard be...?

Whatever you're happy with, really.

The nearer it is, the more protection you'll get from water, but also the
more likely it is to fill with mud and jam the wheel. Also have enough
clearance to allow for vibration and some slight misalignement or bending or
buckling in future.

Cheers for that. I'm happy with the rear wheel, but I don't think Marzocchi
Z1 Bomber's[1] were made with mud guards in mind... ;-)

Cheers,

[1] They just happened to be on the bike when I inherited it, I can afford
to change them...

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Bob wrote:

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Quoted message said:

[1] They just happened to be on the bike when I inherited it, I can afford
to change them...

*Can't* afford, if I could afford I would have... Duh.

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"Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that,
with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month."
-- Wernher von Braun

Pete Biggs said:

Bob said:

I'm just fitting a set of SKS mud guards to my commuting bike (great
instructions) and I have one question. How far from the tyre should
the mud guard be...?

Whatever you're happy with, really.

The nearer it is, the more protection you'll get from water, but also the
more likely it is to fill with mud and jam the wheel. Also have enough
clearance to allow for vibration and some slight misalignement or bending or
buckling in future.

If you've got the room [Hah hah hah] to leave 5mm - 1/4" all the way round in 3
dimensions then take it. Pump the tyres up to full working pressure first.

--
Peter Fox
Beer, dancing, cycling and lots more at www.eminent.demon.co.uk

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Quoted message said:

Cheers for that. I'm happy with the rear wheel, but I don't think Marzocchi
Z1 Bomber's[1] were made with mud guards in mind... ;-)

No but there are mudguards made with Bombers in mind. You need one of
these which works fine with them:
http://wiggle.co.uk/ProductDetail.aspx?Cat=cycle&ProdID=5300004091

--
Tony

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has
taken place"
George Bernard Shaw

Tony Raven said:

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden]
says...

Quoted message said:

Cheers for that. I'm happy with the rear wheel, but I don't think Marzocchi
Z1 Bomber's[1] were made with mud guards in mind... ;-)

No but there are mudguards made with Bombers in mind. You need one of
these which works fine with them:
http://wiggle.co.uk/ProductDetail.aspx?Cat=cycle&ProdID=5300004091

Ugly thing, I'd already bought these
http://wiggle.co.uk/ProductDetail.aspx?Cat=cycle&ProdID=5360010679
so I'm not about to fork out for any more... Anyway, a couple of zip
ties and it all appears to be fine.

Cheers,

--
bob [at] bobarnott [dot] com http://www.bobarnott.com/
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"Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that,
with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month."
-- Wernher von Braun

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says...

Quoted message said:

Tony Raven said:

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden]
says...

Quoted message said:

Cheers for that. I'm happy with the rear wheel, but I don't think Marzocchi
Z1 Bomber's[1] were made with mud guards in mind... ;-)

No but there are mudguards made with Bombers in mind. You need one of
these which works fine with them:
http://wiggle.co.uk/ProductDetail.aspx?Cat=cycle&ProdID=5300004091

Ugly thing, I'd already bought these
http://wiggle.co.uk/ProductDetail.aspx?Cat=cycle&ProdID=5360010679
so I'm not about to fork out for any more... Anyway, a couple of zip
ties and it all appears to be fine.

Curious as to how you fitted those to Bombers which AFAIK don't have a
caliper brake mounting hole through he bridge and will be flexing those
stays like crazy if you try and fix them to the fork legs which move up
and down. But I can see you are the type of man that drives screws home
with a hammer ;-)

--
Tony

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has
taken place"
George Bernard Shaw

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Tony Raven <[email hidden]> tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell
us:

Quoted message said:

Curious as to how you fitted those to Bombers which AFAIK don't have a
caliper brake mounting hole through he bridge and will be flexing
those stays like crazy if you try and fix them to the fork legs which
move up and down.

I've got SKS mudguards on my RockShox-equipped Trek. Zip-ties around the
bottom of the fork legs and another attaching the sticky-up tag thing to the
bridge. Admittedly it doesn't get used for violent off-roading, but they
stay in place OK on the towpath.

--
Dave Larrington
<http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
The sixth student said, "I ride my bicycle because I want people
to look up to me and say 'Wow! He looks really good up there!'
The teacher replied: 'Go away, Fabrizio!'"

Tony Raven wrote:

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Quoted message said:

Curious as to how you fitted those to Bombers which AFAIK don't have a
caliper brake mounting hole through he bridge and will be flexing those
stays like crazy if you try and fix them to the fork legs which move up
and down.

The main fixings are bolted through the disk brake holes. The top bit
is zip tied to the arch bit, so everything is bolted the to the bit
that moves. If that makes any sense.

Quoted message said:

But I can see you are the type of man that drives screws home with a
hammer ;-)

I follow the lead of my two and half year old son, if it doesn't fit,
hit it harder. :-)

Cheers,

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bob [at] bobarnott [dot] com http://www.bobarnott.com/
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"Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that,
with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month."
-- Wernher von Braun

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden]
says...

Quoted message said:

I follow the lead of my two and half year old son, if it doesn't fit,
hit it harder. :-)

In time he'll learn the proper engineering approach - if it doesn't fit
use a bigger hammer ;-)

--
Tony

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has
taken place"
George Bernard Shaw

Bob said:

Tony Raven said:

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Ugly thing, I'd already bought these
http://wiggle.co.uk/ProductDetail.aspx?Cat=cycle&ProdID=5360010679
so I'm not about to fork out for any more... Anyway, a couple of zip
ties and it all appears to be fine.

I always assumed that mudguards on the downtube were the norm for anything
bouncy, http://wiggle.co.uk/ProductDetail.aspx?Cat=cycle&ProdID=895635072

Though I've always used free ones from magazines, and bent them over the
cooker for a better fit.

Steve