Mudguards for Dolan Preffisio?

declan1

Hello!

I really want to use my Preffisio for the winter, as technically it's a winter bike, but mainly because it's my good bike and I couldn't bare riding my other ones...

Anyway, I have some SKS Bluemels guards, but the front one will not fit correctly - the bridge is too high from the guard and pushes the guard onto the tyre directly below the fork crown. I've tried drilling out the 'hole' in the bridge a bit more to raise it up but it seems to be made out of bleedin' titanium or something - no luck.

Who has a Preffisio and has found guards to fit perfectly? Could you let me know what guards they are please?

I have 23mm tyres by the way.
Thanks!

trek_dan

I was about to say SKS Bluemels work perfectly and have plenty clearance on my Preffisio, and thats with 25c tyres - but I have ITM forks not the Alpina ones that come with the frameset so a bit irrelevant. Try giving Dolan a call, their customer services are great, they offer the Pref frameset with guards so they must fit with some fiddling.

MichaelW

The "bridge" is the metal clamp thing that you use to bolt the 'guard to the brake bolt.

Sometimes there is interference between the headset and the vertical tab of the bridge, you can bend the top tip of the clamp outwards.
If you need to extend the slot in the bridge, use a dremel.

declan1

MichaelW wrote:

The "bridge" is the metal clamp thing that you use to bolt the 'guard to the brake bolt.

Sometimes there is interference between the headset and the vertical tab of the bridge, you can bend the top tip of the clamp outwards.
If you need to extend the slot in the bridge, use a dremel.

That the thing I'm talking about. I tried to extend the slot with a Dremel but with no luck. I'll have another proper fiddle sometime soon

gaspode

Had a similar issue fitting bluemels to my Paddy Wagon - ended up like this:

declan1

Gaspode wrote:

Had a similar issue fitting bluemels to my Paddy Wagon - ended up like this:

That's interesting - could possibly work although with an integrated headset I don't think it gets in the way like that.

My problem is the slot in the bridge doesn't go down far enough, so the mudguard can only be pushed 'into' the headset so far (not far enough).

Thanks for the tips though!