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Fixedwheelfiend:

--- Quote ---Originally posted by SPINNERS

I'm going to put SKS mudguards on my Trek 1200 this week. Any tips on where to position the 'hook' type clip, i.e. in front of the fork, behind or up in the fork underside?

Also, this frame has mudguard eyes but doesn't have a chainstay bridge. Any tips?

You can buy an adaptor for frames without bridges.  Salmom mudguard spares do one.  Parker Int sell them
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Fixedwheelfiend:
quote:Originally posted by Peter Gathergood

Excuae my ignorance - but where exactly is 'up in the fork underside'?
Turn bike upside down, remove front wheel and look at hole between fork blades, assuming you have no mudguards

Fixedwheelfiend:
quote:Originally posted by SPINNERS

I'm going to put SKS mudguards on my Trek 1200 this week. Any tips on where to position the 'hook' type clip, i.e. in front of the fork, behind or up in the fork underside?

Put infront but you might have to file the top of the guard mount to allow good tyre clearance and/or stop guardmount fouling underside of headset.  In fork underside is good but a spring inserted too helps to avoid rattles & movement, but awkward to fit.

tynevalleycommuter:
Even filing the top of the front mount as much as I dare and pushing right up to bottom of headset I find clearance insufficient on my winter frame, mud tends to ball up around the part of the clip on the inside of the guard, i have had to stop to clear this even on days when the guards were clean at starting out. Previous guards had a shorter clip and was not a problem. The SKS ones seem to have a 'taller' clip. The clip is very strong and not feasible to bend it to shorten it.

I am going to check the 'up in fork underside' method, how does this work will Allen key brakes? - is it a case of fit around the exposed part of the brake bolt in front of the AK nut? Also how do I fix the guard as high up in the hole as possible and keep it from dropping down and sitting as low as it wants on the slotted hole/bolt?

SPINNERS:
On one set of mudguards I had the same problem with the clip being too strong to bend so I half sawed through it and then bent it forward. Best frame for clearances I've ever had is the ubiquitos Tange white frameset sold by SJSC and Byercycles. This takes 28c's with mudguards no problems.

Worst bike for clearances was the dedicated 'winter' bike that I bought from a custom framebuilder in South Wales. The rear was ok but the front was a disaster. I sold it on to a clubmate who still rides with a 21c on the front to make it work with mudguards. The framebuilder was actually quite good and subsequently built me a couple of very nice road bikes but winter/audax type bikes weren't his thing at all.

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