Just fitted a pair and am a bit worried about how I'll change a flat. Straightforward enough at home on the bike stand, but in the dark with frozen fingers, all those fiddly screws...?
Anyone bin there & dunnit?
I have SKS P35 chromoplastics. Rear wheel change: Deflate tyre (may be done for you if you have a punture), slide wheel forward, drop chain over chainring, slide wheel back, out and down. Remove chain. Swap cog/replace tube/... Installation is the reverse.
SKS guards are securely fixed in place, I guess the crud guards will flex around a lot more. I thought about a set of secuclips as per the front wheel safety release, but I have enough clearance not to bother. It's not a big deal to deflate the wheel first to remove it each time at home. Away from home I will have a puncture anyway.
Not the same I know, but I have a raceblade on mine. Straightforward to get the wheel out, and back in again.
I'm hoping it'll flex out of the way but there's so little clearance. I guess for 25 quid you get what you pay for!
Can you slide the spars up the seatstays an inch or so to move the guard away from the tyre? Tha might help. Or remove one side band to move it out of the way. I don't thing dissasembly is a good option in the dark. Sliding the wheel forward works fine in any instance, however. If you have mudguard eyelets, I'd bite the bullet and go for some proper mudguards.
I also have raceblade longs, but these will be troublesome on the fixed as they mount to the (moveable) axle so geometry wont be the same as a vertical dropout frame. Other options are the Giant Defy guards that have clearance under a narrow bridge, and PDW (expensive) alloy.