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No room to clamp onto the seatpost so...? I want to protect the dropper rather than my ass.
Mudhugger
Strip of inner tube and some zip ties?
Mudhugger Front race, fitted to the rear
Mudhugger
Mudhugger. Proper rear, may as well go the whole hog
Strip of inner tube and some zip ties?
Genius - a kind of homemade boot, and free too. Thanks!
Innertube and zip ties here through the worst of the winter. Not as a boot covering the post, just a mud flap behind the post from top of seat rails to seat tube. Keeps 99.99% of the muck off the post.
Mudhugger. Proper rear, may as well go the whole hog
This. Ugly as **** but you can't see it when you're on the bike and it they actually work.
Make sure you use frame protection with a mudhugger; they’re very good at rapidly scraping paint off!
Make sure you use frame protection with a mudhugger; they’re very good at rapidly scraping paint off!
Its a carbon frame, I'm going for the inner tube solution.
I was gonna try an RRP Neoguard that's lying around in the garage should reach from seat rails to frame.
Definitely just a flap, secured to the saddle rail and round the post collar, set so it's taught when post extended.
Tried to find a pic online, couldn't.
Ten quid! 😆
Here's a different option:
https://www.halfords.com/cycling/bike-parts/mudguards/zefal-no-mud-mudguard-front-or-rear
Don't bother. Your dropper post, unless it's shit, doesn't care about mud.
Those Zefal mudguards are a lot more effective than I was expecting it to be- keeps the mud off and has survived being knocked about. I think it's the fact it feel a bit flexy when set up, lets it move rather than break. Doesn't rattle though. I'm using the RM29 model but I think the general design is the same.
There is a poor bit of design in there however, the two provided lengths of strap don't seem to have any overlap and in fact have a small gap, i.e. seatstays can be slightly too fat for the small one and slightly too thin for the long one. Would you like to guess what size the chainstays on my bike are? Ended up with a mudhugger on that, put the Zefal on a different bike.
For this winter I'm going to be wrapping ugly inner tubes (with zip ties) around the swing arm of my beautifully finished carbon mtb, and use a full size mudhugger with zip ties. Keeps things much cleaner, I don't see it, and nobody is out to see me when the weather is that bad anyway. Spoils the lines of the bike, but worth it.
I snapped one of those Zefal rear guards in a crash, at the thin part of the strut. Current mudhugger works better and seems more durable.
On the rear Mudhugger is the ONLY option. On the front I have RRP Proguard Max and it is great for keeping my eyes clear.
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">The mudhugger rear is the only full coverage guard that stands up to proper mtbing.</span>
I hate mudguards, but I just can't deny their utility. Much as I despise putting in on for the wet season, it saves so much time degunging yourself and your clothes, which, week in week out makes a real difference to motivation and inclination.
I rode far more last winter than the one previous, just because it was so much less of a bind dealing with the filth
What’s the best plan for seatstay protection with a rear mudhugger ? Thinking about buying one for my Bird Zero ..
I have the zefal one, two in fact, one for each of my 29ers
they're great
just about to order a Mudhugger, as in similar position with minimal dropper post collar to attach anything. My brake hose goes down the outside/base of the seatstay so should fit ok.
I guess a few layers of helitape will offer enough paint protection ??
When my dropper was new, shiny and worth more than the bike it was attached to I took a bog standard Velcro chainstay protector, removed the Velcro and stitched it around the stanchion as a homemade boot. Cable tied at the top, stretched over the collar at the bottom it stayed put but could be rolled back for inspect/ and clean.
worked very well.
Now I'm back in the slop of Englandshire, I don't bother.
What’s the best plan for seatstay protection with a rear mudhugger ?
I cut some pieces of innertube and wrapped the seatstays before fitting the mudhhugger.
That was fitting a black guard to a black bike though so it doesn’t look odd.
Helitape probably would be better.
I've just fitted a mudhugger too, as mentioned above it's ugly but it's by far the best I've ever used.
Iain, my Mudhugger came supplied with enough tape to wrap your stays.
Keep an eye on the stays even so. There have been reports in here (about this time last year I think) of Mudhuggers that had worn through the helitape and started making inroads into the frame below. Kinda makes sense, any mudguard is going to vibrate and so has potential to wear into whatever it’s fixed to especially if it’s a fitting that has been designed around an existing design rather than designed in from the get go.
^^^^^ thanks, may helitape and then use some old inner tube on top..
I now wrap inner tube around the stays, this works best of all, and is easy to remove. I leave the zip ties long enough to grip with pliers for a couple of rides so I can cinch them down again after everything settles in.
Get one of these to fix the zip ties on a Mudhugger and it won't move. I've been using a Mudhugger for a few years in winter and just use the supplied tape without any problems of wear.
Brilliant.
Zip tie tensioner is one of my favourite tools
Damn it, another tool I didn’t know of, now I need
They are a cracking tool for any zipties job .A twist after tightening the ziptie leaves no sharp ends