Anyone have SKS chromoplastic mud guards?

Either I'm missing some screws or they're the biggest piece of censored ever.
The front mudguard bolts on via the black plastic thing in the image:
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/images/sks-chro ... s-zoom.jpg
Great except the bolts are so short there's almost no thread coming out the other end with which to screw them to the fork.
The instructions show this bolt as having a crosshead whereas the only bolts I have take an allen key. I had three bags of screws/fittings.
Anyone help?
The front mudguard bolts on via the black plastic thing in the image:
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/images/sks-chro ... s-zoom.jpg
Great except the bolts are so short there's almost no thread coming out the other end with which to screw them to the fork.
The instructions show this bolt as having a crosshead whereas the only bolts I have take an allen key. I had three bags of screws/fittings.
Anyone help?
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Most new frames will have long bolts in the frame, new eh! who'd do that???
beside you'll be needing Ti bolts FFS think of the weight
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And one of the tyres I ordered at the same time has a slit in the sidewall - it's not my day :roll:
If it comes down to it a LBS should have an assortment of usable bolts..shouldn't cost much and probably less hassle than replacing the set.
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As said you might be missing some as the front's do take longer bolts due to the safety clip (oh and they do work).
PS have you checked the other bolts if they are a little longer - i.e. not taped up with the rears.
Dude WTF with that avatar, no really come on! :roll:
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
Some Welsh guy who won the World Champs?
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He could be worse, he could be like that knob Armstrong.
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Now you keep this up i'm gonna have to report you
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
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Left over bolts eh so what your saying is don't put any books of my shelves or shut the cupboard doors to hard... mmmm!
DIY what?
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I was sad Fabian couldn't do the double. Oh well.
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Yeah I'm pissing about taking photos rather than looking at the bolts that came with it :roll:
As I already said there are 2 lengths of bolt - 4 of that length and 3 that are about four times as long - so long they can't possibly be used to attach the mudguard at the front as they would hit the spokes.
I started with the front mudguard as per the instructions and haven't used any other bolts.
I can empathise, is that any good? Been struggling with this on & off for a week now in spare half hours, thank God the rain's held off.
On the particular issue of the bolts, I know it looks short but when screwed in it seems OK. The big problem I'm having is with the loop at the top that the main bolt goes through. Won't screw into the back of the brake bolt, because the brake bolt is recessed (does any normal road bike come with any other kind?) and when I mount it in front of the forks behind the caliper it's too tall and would scrape the bottom headset collar.
Oh, plus, I don't have anything that can cut quarter-centimetre-thick steel, so trimming the stays to the right length is going to be hell too.
And that's just the front mudguard.
Tomorrow am giving up and taking it to the bike shop that sold me the guards. They saw the bike and said they'd be ok, they can bloody well fit them.
A junior hacksaw does this fine. A pipe cutter also works well.
It is worth taking the trouble to fit these guards, once fitted they are superb!
Yes, key word there being "trouble". I'm sure they're great but it seems poor to have to cut bits off them to make them fit a pretty standard road bike; in any case, cutting the loop at the front is to enable me to fit it in a way that's not in the instructions, because that way doesn't work!
Meh. Maybe I'm just impatient, but if the bike shop wants to charge me a tenner for it I can live with that rather than spend 2 more evenings swearing at a bit of plastic.
As for "standard road bike" there are all sorts of fork and rear triangle geometries and tyre sizes to cope with. If there was no adjustability then the guards would probably have to stand proud of the tyres by 3 or 4 cm to cope with all eventualities.
Yes. One of the front bolts I was trying to fit screwed the thread on the front fork, so I just used 2 small cable ties, been on 3 weeks now and even gone touring with it, and it is fine.
Great mudguards!!
I plan on tweaking my rear ones to take the same `safety' clip thats on the front ones so that I can more easily get my fixed/ss rear wheel out of the track ends (Spesh. Tri-Singlecross.) I'm hoping that the most `difficult' thing about this will be trimming the stays a bit shorter.
I also have a rack installed which I unknowingly attached outside the stays on the attachment bolt contra to advice I read afterwards. Not sure how vital that is ... if its just more likely to work loose or what. When I add the clips I will fix that.
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