Originally Posted by
Bat56
You want fender mounts. Fender eyelets.
In detail - on the front you want at least one threaded hole by the axle and a hole at the fork crown. If the fork is a cross fork with canti brakes you might not have the crown hole.
On the rear you also want threaded holes at the axle. And a threaded hole at the brake bridge. You might not even have a brake bridge. You also want a hole in the chain stay bridge - which also might not exist.
If you are going to buy a bike just for the rain, then get these things. Or course, you can throw fenders on any bike with p-clamps and zip ties but if you don't want crap rattling around, start out right. Even something as minor as the chain stay bridge hole is a small thing but huge. If you do not have it, the fender will have a clip to clip on the bridge and get rusty, scratch the paint, and break eventually.
Just went through the gallery of pics and everything named here as being necessary to mount fenders is there. The fork is drilled and there are threaded fender bosses. The rear has a brake cross bar pre-drilled and there's a threaded cross-brace for the chainstays behind the bb for a fender attachment screw. The horizontal dropouts have threaded fender eyelets. There are rack bosses as well. Get regular full coverage 35mm fenders from
www.bikeisland.com for 34.00 w/no shipping. Wouldn't recommend the 'hybrid' fenders as they're a PITA to mount and the others cover just as well.
Btw, use rubber washers and squares of foam rubber packed in at 'pressure points' when mounting and they wont rattle. Places like where the front fender attaches to the fork crown. Use rubber washers on both sides and glue small squares of foam to the top side of the fender where it presses against the fork. Same w/t rear where it runs under the seatstays' brace. Just a little forethought will save you lots of grief.
