Bought myself some mudguards in december for the cx bike which is also my commuter because after a couple of years its slowly starting to dawn on my that commuting in Wales without them is daft. Finally got round to try fitting them and am having loads of issues.
Firstly, its a right pain in the buttocks trying to fit them round disk brakes, although I thought I’d more or less sorted that by bending some jaunty angles into the stays. Secondly, despite being nominally 45mm wide, my 33mm tyres rub on them, possibly due to the weirdly bent stays not providing sufficient support. This is especially the case at the front due to the attachment to the fork bridge forcing the guard too low.
Not only have I messed around bending bit to try and bodge a fit, but the shop I got them from is closed so can’t take them back.
Trying to decide on whether give up on the guards and get something like the crud guard road racers which seem to avoid the disk issue and are apparently wide enough for cx tyres, or get some narrower tyres?
Anyone use the crud ones or similar and do they have enough width for cx tyres? How easy is it to peel the velcro back off bike as that would be a nightmare come proper cross usage.
If I go down the narrower tyre route, any suggestions? Would be used through spring and summer for commuting and hashtag gravel type rides. Guess I’d want something around 30mm max and a file tread type thing? Prefereably not too pricy. Having never ridden proper road tyres I’m scared of anything too narrow or too slick as I’m sure I’d slide to road rash death due to my ambivalence about manhole covers, loose gravel etc.
