Trek 1.5 and mudguards

adeyboy
adeyboy Posts: 113
edited January 2009 in Road beginners
Does anyone know......

Trek's details suggest that you can fit full mudguards to this bike (as do some reveiws of the 2008 model which I have) but LBS suggested not. Looking at it I'm inclined to agree with them, and have no reason to doubt them, but has anyone done it?

Thanks all.

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  • alfablue
    alfablue Posts: 8,497
    My girlfriend has a Trek 1.2 (2008) which I think is an identical frame (I think there are just component upgrades and a different paint job on the 1.5). She has full mudguards (SKS p35's), they fitted no problem. She runs a 700cx25 Schwalbe Marathon (slightly bulkier than some 25's), and there is ample clearance, a 28 tyre might be marginal. She also has a Tortec lightweight rack on the back (no problem fitting this either) and the bike was surprisingly good for touring. I think the LBS are wrong in this case.

    It has mudguard bosses on the forks and stays, there is some clearance between the fork and tyre, is there not?

    I would have thought the LBS could easily tell by offering up a mudguard to it, or you could buy from somewhere reliable online that will take a return without hassle should it not work (Wiggle, CRC for example).
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    I was considering the 2008 model at one time, specifically because it could be fitted with proper guards. Ben Haywards in Cambridge confirmed that they had done it on several occasions.

    Not sure about the 2009 version.
  • adeyboy
    adeyboy Posts: 113
    Thanks for responses.

    The 1.5 is a different frame to the 1.2 (Alpha Black rather than Alpha White) - which is why I went for 1.5 rather than 1.2, Aplha Black being shared right up the range to the 1.9.

    That said my 1.5 frame does have the eyes on the fork and at the back for mudguards (where the 1.7/1.9 does not) but clearance over brakes is very tight and I think this is where the shop said the plan fell down (they'd tried it before apparently).

    Just wondering if anyone had actually managed it with the kind of bloody mindedness that can only come from working on your own bike!!!
  • adeyboy
    adeyboy Posts: 113
    Excuse me for 'bumping' (is that the term?) my own thread.

    Reason for this is that I have just put new tyres on - 23 rather than the 25 that came with bike - and there is loads more clearance now for mudguards. So, once again just wondering if anyone can definitively say that it can be done!!!

    Thanks again, A
  • adeyboy
    adeyboy Posts: 113
    Should be in the 'gear and kbow how section too'. Sorry. Perhaps a mod could move it.

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