F
Freddy
Guest
I've currently got a set of clip on plastic mudguards on my rigid mtb (used
practically solely on road, these days, and has road-type tyres on).
They're not tiny in size: the front mudguard bolts through the fork crown
and extends a little in front, and down the back of the front wheel to, I'd
say, just a little over the 9 o'clock position of the wheel (looking at it
side on, with the back of the bike on the left...). What I would like is for
them to just extend a bit further, so any splashing from it, doesn't hit my
feet, or the chainset / bottom-bracket area.
I've looked at buying other fuller mudgards - the kinds that actually bolt
mounting holes, but whilst my front forks have mounting holes on the
dropouts (nothing further up the fork blades, though), the rear dropouts
have nothing, nor are there any mounting holes further up the seat-stays.
And to further exacerbate this, the seat-stay bridge has no hole through it
(which is where many clip-on mtb mudguards seem to bolt) and the chainstay
bridge only has a tiny hole on one side (the tyre / wheel side - not all the
way through).
As I'd rather not drill any holes through either bridge, and as the rear
plastic mudguard I've got currently fits my bike frame well (it has a
plastic bracket that clips on to the mudguard, and plastic loops / clips
that clip around the seat-stay bridge (as opposed to bolting through) and a
plastic clip that clips around the seat tube.
So what I wondered was whether I could find some black plastic or rubber
type material, that I could cut to shape (ie a sort of narrow mud flap) that
I could attach to both the bottom of the front mudguard, and the rear of
back mudguard.
Has anybody got any tips on what I could use for that, and where I could buy
it. And methods of attaching to the ends of the plastic mudguards - I sort
of assumed that small self-tapping screws may be good enough?
practically solely on road, these days, and has road-type tyres on).
They're not tiny in size: the front mudguard bolts through the fork crown
and extends a little in front, and down the back of the front wheel to, I'd
say, just a little over the 9 o'clock position of the wheel (looking at it
side on, with the back of the bike on the left...). What I would like is for
them to just extend a bit further, so any splashing from it, doesn't hit my
feet, or the chainset / bottom-bracket area.
I've looked at buying other fuller mudgards - the kinds that actually bolt
mounting holes, but whilst my front forks have mounting holes on the
dropouts (nothing further up the fork blades, though), the rear dropouts
have nothing, nor are there any mounting holes further up the seat-stays.
And to further exacerbate this, the seat-stay bridge has no hole through it
(which is where many clip-on mtb mudguards seem to bolt) and the chainstay
bridge only has a tiny hole on one side (the tyre / wheel side - not all the
way through).
As I'd rather not drill any holes through either bridge, and as the rear
plastic mudguard I've got currently fits my bike frame well (it has a
plastic bracket that clips on to the mudguard, and plastic loops / clips
that clip around the seat-stay bridge (as opposed to bolting through) and a
plastic clip that clips around the seat tube.
So what I wondered was whether I could find some black plastic or rubber
type material, that I could cut to shape (ie a sort of narrow mud flap) that
I could attach to both the bottom of the front mudguard, and the rear of
back mudguard.
Has anybody got any tips on what I could use for that, and where I could buy
it. And methods of attaching to the ends of the plastic mudguards - I sort
of assumed that small self-tapping screws may be good enough?