Mud Guard Hell

dickiedates
dickiedates Posts: 4
edited September 2009 in Road buying advice
I'm looking to buy my first Road Bike (Cube Peloton). It doesn't have room to put mud guards round the whole tyre. Can some help me: Are there any mud guards that don't have to fit around the whole tyre and are they effective? Or: Should I stay away from buying this bike and go for one that takes full Mud guards?

What do you pros reckon.

Cheers :D

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  • ride_whenever
    ride_whenever Posts: 13,279
    crud road racers
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    ride_whenever wrote:
    crud road racers

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  • giant_man
    giant_man Posts: 6,878
    redvee wrote:
    ride_whenever wrote:
    crud road racers

    +1

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  • aracer
    aracer Posts: 1,649
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    If you really need guards - and if you're asking about it before you've bought the bike rather than being overwhelmed by new bike lust that means you almost certainly do - then normal full guards work better than those. Far better off to get a different bike which will take normal guards (plenty of choice around nowadays), which won't really be a compromise for anything else - if anything the chances are it will have longer stays and so be a slightly more forgiving ride.
  • amaferanga
    amaferanga Posts: 6,789
    From what I've read the crud road racer mudguards seem to be pretty effective at keeping the rider dry (less so anyone following - know this one from experience). So if that's the bike you REALLY want then just get it and get some of the cruds. But as aracer says, there are plenty of bikes out there at that sort of level (105) for that sort of price (£800-900) that'll take proper mudguards. One that springs to mind is the Giant Defy 1. If its half as good as my old SCR2.0 then it'll be a great bike for the money.
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  • FOAD
    FOAD Posts: 318
    Not that I have used them but also consider these:

    http://www2.giant-bicycles.com/en-GB/pa ... 383/30883/

    I have seen them in the flesh in black and silver. The have a cut-out where the brakes are on each, but cover the full wheel which I don't think the Cruds do.
  • soveda
    soveda Posts: 306
    FOAD wrote:
    Not that I have used them but also consider these:

    http://www2.giant-bicycles.com/en-GB/pa ... 383/30883/

    I have seen them in the flesh in black and silver. The have a cut-out where the brakes are on each, but cover the full wheel which I don't think the Cruds do.

    Mine broke at the cut-out after 3 months, they also scraper any mud off the tyre and threw it up into the brake caliper so they kept seizing up.
    If you don't ride on muddy rural lanes this may not be a problem.

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