Originally Posted by
noglider
I've seen some clever ways of adding fenders on bikes with no clearance. Basically, you split the rear fender at the brake bridge and couple it with hardware. Do the same around the fork crown on the front fender. I saw this here on bikeforums.
The commercial fitting to do this is called a "reacharound" and who wouldn't buy that just for the appealing product name ?
Have done this on a lot of bikes (and fabricated my own reacharound) when the tyre clearance would not clear the fender between the forks... this often happens on winter bikes when studded tyres are installed.
On a trackish bike toe overlap would be an issue if you wanted to run full length front fenders and if they are not full length there is little point in running them.
On 3 speed BMX bikes... Raleigh / SA offered a 3 speed IGH and BMX model with a stronger drive axle but it did not sell well as it added weight and complexity to a bike that needs to be simple and light.
Anyways... if I had the coin I'd buy several of these just to get the wheelsets and especially the SB3 hubs, fit new fixed wheels to the remaining frame and get a good chunk of my money back.
That is a smoking good deal.