Originally Posted by
noglider
When people mention what a pain they are to install, I wonder, is it that hard, or am I lucky? Maybe I'm skilled and don't know it?
Tom, I bought my latest touring bike and installed fenders on it myself. When I bought my daughter a touring bike a year later, I remembered it being an hour and a half of full-speed-ahead pfutzing, so I asked REI to install her fenders before we left with the bike. Those skilled mechanics managed to get her fenders on in only 90 minutes. Both the SKS fenders you mentioned.
It may be possible to do it faster if you install a bunch of fenders, but it does take some time.
OTOH, neither of us has had problems with them in the last 8 or 9 years.