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I have a Ragley Trig gravel bike fitted with 700c wheels and Maxxis Receptor tyres. The Receptors are 700x40 which is listed at the maximum tyre width for the Trig. However there seems to be a fair bit more room in there and I think that I could get away with fitting mudguard with these tyres.
I was wondering what the widest mudguards people have been able to fit to a Trig. At a guess I'd say that a 45mm might be possible. The fly in the ointment is that I'm running a front mech. (and a band-on adapter for the braze-on mech.) which will probably tighten things a bit, although I don't mind trimming the guards at pinch points if necessary.
Also, I was expecting mudguard mounts on the fork dropouts, but they're not there. Looking at other bikes, it looks like the stays attach to the lower of the 3 mount points on the fork legs. Do I use the standard steel stayed guards or do I need something specific to mount in this way (carbon fork)?
Win-wing, put as wide a tyre as you like, no clogging and a dry backside
My Trig came with 47mm on 27.5Â , plenty of room .. not sure if that will help ?
I have 45mm 700c tyres on mine, with a Gravelhugger on the front and Win Wing on the rear.
Are you looking at traditional fixed guards?
I was thinking about fixed guards & wondering whether I could fit 45mm or 50mm ones & keep the 40mm tyres. As above, the front mech might gum things up & I probably need to do a bit of measuring.