@roverpig
A quick question for the Blumels owners. Mine have arrived and I’ve realised that while my frame has a bridge on the seat stays there isn’t a hole in it. So how important is that bracket? Can I just ignore it or do I need to bodge something?
I’d say quite important. Although I’m obsessive with getting as near to silent mudguards as possible, so rubber-washer (or cut old pieces of inner-tube) everything.
P-clip or ziptie. I used a ziptie on the Vagabond as it has the same issue as yours. May want to use a little innertube and glue-wrap to keep the ziptie from sliding around be ause no matter how tight you do them the glossy finishes of zipties and clearcoat don’t cause enough friction to stay in place without help.
Again, a (small) coated p-clip should do it. I was going to upgrade the ziptie to one of these anyway. Measure the bridge diameter and source accordingly.