Mucky Nutz Bender Fender 2.1 OR RRP Rapid Racer Products Neoguard Mud Guard MT

after getting a face full of mud last night i friend suggested some mud protection…are these any good? Opinions or suggestions welcomed 😀

thank you

FYI riding FOD singletrack/trail centre + 140mm pikes

Just put the mucky nutz on my bike for the dyfi, was very impressed. Was going to go for a Neoguard but they had no white. 29er Sids

I’ve had both and they both work about the same but I prefer the Mucky Nutz as it shields your fork seals and stanchions a bit as well. I’ve got minimal gap between tyre and fork brace so neither are particularly durable but you should still get a year out of them.

MN is much better imo, just got one, been using a neoguard for a few years.

Neoguard’s are poor unless used in conjunction with a Crud catcher.
Not convinced the MN can be of much more use, & again would need complimenting to give decent cover..
If you want proper protection, get a proper mudguard, ala SKS Shockboard or THE (front) Fenders

+1 for the THE fenders for MUCH better coverage.

Muckynutz isn’t bad though, and does look better being lower-profile.

MuckyNutz purchased – cheers all

I’ve had an MN on my bike for about 2 months now and it stops almost all mud, its the protection it offers to forks though that I think is the best bit about it.

I’ve had both and they both work about the same but I prefer the Mucky Nutz as it shields your fork seals and stanchions a bit as well.

+1

MN all the way, £7.98 for a thin bit of plastic is expensive but they do work so well.!

As said above, helps to protect seals and legs…

I like the mucky nutz style, I just made my own out of an old folder and it works just as well!

… (MN) stops almost all mud

😆 😆

Better than a Neoguard though.

Defender from Mojo. Expensive but a million times better than anything on the market

Defender from Mojo

hahahahahahaha!!!!!!

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. £60 for a one-fork specific mudguard? April fool!!!!

One fork specific?? Dont know about that, they fit 32,36 and 40’s( all fox admitidly)
I got mine cheap, but they are really,really good. Whats the point of having something cheap if it dont work tidy??

I agree completely, its going to give the best coverage.

But £60 for a piece of plastic, not to mention the £500+ for a new pair of forks to fit it on isn’t exactly useful, compared to £8 for the fender-bender which does, say 80%, of the jub at a fraction of the cost.

I got mine cheap

How cheap? And how?

Im in with the locals if you know what i mean

ah, so that makes it a lot more feasible then.
You can hardly recomend an expensive product that you use because its available to you at a cheeky price.
Would you, in all honesty, pay £60 of your own cash, for a single mudguard?

I know what your saying but once you’ve used one it would be tough to go back to any of the others.
I don’t just ride trail centres, where it’s mainly puddles that cause you problems. We combine 2-3 Dh tracks in our ” xc ” rides and I can honestly say they are the best for the job. Is it worth having a £5000 bike if something as cheap ( in the biking world ) as £60 is stoping you ride properly ?

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Anyone else found the mucky nutz bottoms out on the crown at full travel? Only noticed whilst fiddling with the forks, not whilst riding. Fox vanilla 140mm btw

I am designing and producing my own mud catcher and will hopefully be Put into production to soon. i am aiming to sell It £2/3 less than whats already out there. This helps by me working at a company where i can print it and make it, keeps cost down

Is it worth having a £5000 bike if something as cheap ( in the biking world ) as £60 is stoping you ride properly ?

Crock of the proverbial.
I pay what I see as a fair price for a component that I want.

Rohloff Speedhub, complex German engineering. I’d say that’s worth £700
Titanium frame? £500-£1000 seems fair.

But a mudguard? A single piece of moulded plastic for £60? That smacks of greedy mark-up to me. £60 buys a pair of clipless pedals: cast and machined bodies, ground bearings, turned axles, complex spring arrangements, all assembled. There’s just no need for a mudguard to be so expensive when there are so many alternatives for a fraction of the cost.

I’d be very interested to see how many of the general paying public actually buy one, as opposed to residents of Newport 😉

Sorry to the OP, I’ve got side-tracked by one of my favourite arguments…

Squiff: sounds very promising. Looking forward to more details.

What ever you say Bandito

Mucky Nutz for me, keeps more shite off the stanchions and is interchangeable between all my forks.

The RRP is fork specific, holds on to more shite, and can rub under crown on the tyre giving an off-putting buzzing noise.

And it’s cheaper.

get puncture cut up inner tube zip tie on, job done

get puncture cut up inner tube zip tie on, job done

Tsk, pikey…. 😉

and more money for beer

If anyone wants I can supply MudCatherThingys(TM) Kustom made for ur Forxonly £45 + Postage (comes with fixative mechanisms) 100% Recycled

I’ll have seven.

Cheers Gary see below for accepted payment methods

rhysw

if my bike was worth that much id be spending more on a mudguard too! 🙂

I’ve been running a MN FB for a month – trouble is, the past month’s weather has been so wet, it hasn’t been “normal” test conditions. Needless to say I’ve been pretty unimpressed with it so far. Every ride has splashed wet and mud into my face. Will fit a downtube CC too and see if that helps. But, hopefully, drier weather might return…

if my bike was worth that much id be spending more on a mudguard too

but why?

My point is that a simple piece of plastic needn’t to cost an arm and a leg, it doesn’t need to be a proportion of the total cost!

ir_bandito

i do see your point, just figure its a bit like having a ferrari (and the money) and buying your mudflaps from halfords…actually that a rubbish simile but then i do have a leopard print saddle… 😳

Both work, but it’s gotta be the fender bender, keeps mud away from stanchions and seals, whereas the neo-guard channels it onto them. A no-brainer in my view.

APF

Another vote for the Fender Bender.

Neo guard always seemed to work well to reduce mud and spray but it did trap a lot of cack. Fender Bender seems to work just as well without acting as a crap trap.

Is it worth having a £5000 bike if something as cheap ( in the biking world ) as £60 is stoping you ride properly

by that standard I’ve got some innertubes here, £30 to you, no point spending less than that if you have a 5K bike eh?
I’ll guess you paid £20ish for you defender, at that price I might have one myself fair enough, £60 is ripping the piss tho (not that mojo are the only ones doing this sort of thing)