Mikey0124

Okay I ride my bike ALL year round through the snow and rain! I've got a pair of mud guards on my front and rear tires to stop the water and mud from spashing up on me when I am riding but i still seem to get water that spashes up on me when riding! Now i was currently going to order a set of mud guards off of this website

https://www.brauns.com/gc/gc_item.exe...0&%20Rear&Z9=0

These are the actual fenders I am going to order! Now this is a picture of my exact bike

https://a116.g.akamai.net/7/116/8068/...9830946353.jpg

I've currently got a set on my bike one that attaches on the back of my seat post and another one connected on the front end of the frame for the front tire but I am still getting water splashed up on me when I go through puddles and that cause they don't seem to be long enough and go around the tire enough. Do you guys think the fenders I posted up there will be good since there longer and do you think they will attach on my bike or maybe someone has another suggestion! Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.....

Ken Wind

It is difficult to fit full fenders on a full suspension bike like that. The fenders I've used with the most coverage are Planet Bike Cascadia fenders because of their extra long mudflaps, but I doubt you could get them to fit on your bike well. If you use a bike with a a rigid fork and hard tail (no suspension) that has fender eyelets, it is much easier to install fenders that give you the most coverage possible.

xenologer

Intersting, Never touch the full suspension things myself. ?does that frame even have eyelets for bolting fenders on? Pclamps may be needed here...

I'd imagine that one difficulty with the rear fender is the fact that the upper chainstay is a bit lower than would be needed for the rear fender to attach to.
My suggestion for this is... rotate the rear fender forwards, drill a new hole for its bottom bracket bolthole. This should allow the wire supports on it to also be more forwards and take up some of the slack of the missing upper chainstay mounting...

For the front fender, that disk brake is probably going to get in the way *shrug* you may have to invent an alternate attachment.



P.S. are you ?sure? those fenders are actually Wide enough for your big knobby tires? they look a little narrow in the photo

unkchunk

I haven't seen a pair of fenders that come with adequate mud flaps. To stop your feet from getting wet the mudflaps should just skirt the edge of the ground. You'll have to make a set yourself, but don't fret. They are easy and inexpensive to make. A rubber anti slip stair mat costs only about a dollar at a hardware/home improvement store. Cut out a shape a little wider than the fender itself and make sure it's long enough to touch the ground. Drill two matching holes in both the fender and flap and attach with a zip tie. And you only really need the flap for the front.

mike

The problem of how to mount fenders on a suspension front fork is an interesting one. I have had shorty fenders that mount on the underside of the fork crown without legs that extend to the dropouts, but they were short and not very effective. I wonder if you couldn't find a solution at a moped shop.

Of course, you can get seat-post mounted fenders which are better than nothing and you can add a fender to your down-tube which is better than nothing. In fact, you can make your own down-tube mounted fender out of a liter cola bottle.

What I can tell you before you spend too much time and money on the project is that fenders and mudflaps work great at reducing the amount of splashine and wetness, but it doesn't fix it all.

If being wet is a big problem, I suggest you use leg gaitors. That is what I do. My feet still get soaking wet, so you either have to wear rubber shoes/boots, or I suppose you could get full boot gaitors that go over the toe like the telemark skiers use.

I do admire your fortitude to ride in wet weather.

Old Army

I use a combination of SKS fenders that can be added and removed quickly. For the front, I use the Shockboard. It mounts using a cleaver little plug in the bottom of the fork's head tube. It provides fair coverage, but has no rubber skirt. It provides enough coverage to keep the front wheel from throwing water in your face, but it wont keep your shoes dry. For the back, its their seatpost mounted Xtra Dry rear fender. Again, the coverage is modest, but good enough to keep the skunk stripe at bay. Where it falls short is coverage around the seat post. The rear tire will sling some water into the back of your legs. To solve this, you might be able to use an additional MudX mini fender on the seat post (edit: That Mongoose hardly has a seat tube so fagettaboutit). My bike's rear shock and moutning bracket doesn't allow enough clearance there. It's about a 90% solution compared to full on commuter fenders. But my disk brake equipped full-suspension mountain bike leaves few other options. BTW, these are actually intended for off-road riding, so clearance and performance in mud and snow is not an issue. And the bike takes on the looks of a motocross motorcycle with the fenders installed. Its more Mad Max than the usual Walter Mitty looking commuting setup.

-Old Army

JanMM

Mounting fenders on any bike can involve careful use of drills, snips and zip ties.