Ok. My son got a Merlin G2X frameset to rebuild an old road bike for gravel and maybe a bit of CX. Built it up and it seems pretty good for what we paid.
I suggested some mudguards might not be a bad idea for use as a winter bike.
Now it gets puzzling. The frame has rack and guard mounts but the (carbon) fork only seems to have two threaded holes halfway down the inside of the legs. No holes at the drop outs, no holes at the crown – at least not that I can see.
The photo shows it.
Now to be fair Merlin don’t mention mounts of any sort on the fork, so:
1) am I missing something, is it a mounting system I don’t know about (racks or guards I would have thought needed another hole or two), or
2) is this a specification error when the forks were ordered from the manufacturer?
Thoughts? Knowledge?
https://www.merlincycles.com/assets/images/productImage_470_470_ffffff_image-jpeg/80562_merlin_malt_g2x_gravel_frameset.jpg