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I've had my soul now for a month and absolutely love it, my confidence on downhills has increased 100%. On my old bike it had bosses (?) mount holes for a crud catcher but on the soul there are none. Consequently running at speed I get mud all up my front and on my face making my glasses muddy, reduced visibility is not a good thing at speed. I have the RRP guard on the forks but really miss the crud catcher. I don't want to ruin 'the look' of the soul with a straps round the downtube but I can't run the chance of mud in yer face all winter. Could I drill holes and insert a boss (correct word?) with a thread or do you reckon that would make the frame unsafe or more liable to weakness at that point?
mudhugger front guard.
Self-tapping screws. I dare you!
get a mucky nutz 'gut fender' - I have one on my Soul and it does same job as crud catcher, with less weight and 2 wee velcro straps
[i]I don't want to ruin 'the look' of the soul with a straps round the downtube[/i]
If you're fitting an RRP guard and any form of crud catcher you're not worried about looks 😉
paint the 'straps' frame colour?
[Do not drill the frame. Really]
Have you tried one of the the fender mounted things? MuckyNutz or similar (you can make one out of a thin bit of plastic also). I find they do a pretty good job of keep the worst off and they're quite subtle aesthetics wise.
do you reckon that would make the frame unsafe or more liable to weakness at that point?
Yes and massively.
Benderfender or Mudhugger front guard, and protection tape on your forks first.
think there was a thread here years ago, about (not) drilling the downtube. pretty sure Cy contributed to the thread. I certainly wouldn't drill the tubes.
riding thru a swiss farm full of cow turds was not fun. was even less fun on the next descent as all the bovine excrement gets flinged everywhere.
you just upgraded your 1992 muddyfox courier ? or was your previous bike a dawes?
zip ties were made for this.
@Andy - think that might have also included Brant in that discussion, something about how thin the steel tubing was in a downtube, and how placing crud catcher mounts would affect the flex and strength of it???
If aesthetics are important then I'd get some frame-coloured zip-ties, some clear frame protection tape and use the crud catcher, but a Bender Fender works brilliantly for catching stuff, for virtually no weight and is v discrete too.
cheers guys, after 2 minutes of googling got a free template for a face fender. here: http://www.bike198.com/diy-mud-guard-fender/
Those fork guards are really effective- better on balance than a crudcatcher, but not perfect. A fork-mounted mudguard like a Shockboard is the way to do it if you really want to stop mud. Cosmetically I think they're nicer than a crudcatcher but not everyone agrees
Those fork guards are really effective- better on balance than a crudcatcher, but not perfect.
+1
They also shield your fork seals, which is an added bonus.
A fork-mounted mudguard like a Shockboard is the way to do it if you really want to stop mud. Cosmetically I think they're nicer than a crudcatcher but not everyone agrees
Like me. 😀