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I'm looking for a 'proper' mudguard (fitted with stays) for my Swift, probably 3/4 length. It'll need to accommodate at least 2" 29er tyres.
For some reason I'm struggling to find one. I only need a rear at present but I suspect I'll need to buy a set; silver would be nice (but not essential).
What's out there?
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and spendy
SKS do a Chromaplastic one. The ones I have are black, Dong know if they do silver.
Here's my cube 29er with sks 'velo 55's fitted.
That's a 2.1 tyre at the front with room for a cigarette paper betwixt...
I could have used stays, but the front mudguard bolted onto the fork crown and has managed to stay put.
Because I always have a rear rack fitted, I suspend the rear guard from the rack, via cable ties and those silver sks musguard clips.
And, because the mudguard pokes out the back of the rack, there's a trade-off in coverage. So the front mech ends up collecting crud.
But no problems. Coverage at front is particularly good and I haven't managed thus far to plant my clown-feet into the mudguard.
Highly recommended, unless you go 29+.(then you have to improvise)
Planet X do some Stronglight mudguards in 54mm; I assume that these would accommodate a 700x45 tyre (perhaps not too much wider though)?
I'm not quite sure what the difference is between the "S" and "E" versions; anyone know?
Swift with SKS Blumels (65mm ones IIRC), with Maxxis Icon 29x2.2 and Tread Lite 29x2.1. Fitted perfectly. A little rattly - the stays hitting edge of knobbles when shaken around - on mild offroad trails like in the pics, but not surprising.
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The look perfect A11y; I must have missed them when I was browsing the SKS site. I hope they do them in silver!