So I started off building a lightweight gravel and CX racing build, but in order to justify it to my wife it also needs to perform as a winter road bike/commuter (at least for this year until I've recovered from lower back surgery and can jump on the singlespeed again).
Lightweight racey forks don't come with eyelets, but big chunky carbon legs look a bit challenging for P-Clips, and the dropouts won't allow those little QR skewer eyelet thingies.
Have some really big p-clips on order, but is there a better solution I've missed?
Would it not be simpler to just buy and use a cheaper fork, with mudguard eyelets, then change back to your "nice" forks when you don't need 'guards?
A zefal swan and croozer set solved that problem for me. They work really well and are so cheap I can live with the looks
Here's how I did it
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Sugru used to act as an interface. No metal actually touches the fork.
I’d nick the idea of using Velcro to attach off the crud racer mk3 which are absolutely fantabulous on a bike without mudguard eyes and actually look good.
Velcro sounds mad but wow it really works well.
Neat ideas, that Crud Velcro is pretty industrial!
Have a Zefal setalready, they are good, just not as good as full length!
Wife might have solved the problem for me, she appeared surprised when I mentioned selling my other winter road bike, perhaps I don't need to sell it after all...
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I'm with scotroutes*.
Just buy forks with eyelets?
*Sort of, I personally could be arsed ****ing about swapping forks.
No chance I'm fannying about swapping forks! Plus a spare fork would be 10x the cost of whatever DIY bodge I come up with.
(unless you meant just buy a fork with eyelets in the first place, in which case ship has sailed already).
Am thinking I can hold on to my old winter bike at least for this coming winter, then sell it. Even if it's devalued by another season's riding, I'll recoup that by not buying a set of PDW mudguards!