Planet X XLS & Mudguards

bendertherobot

Indeed you should. You'd have a pretty good case, other than lapse of time, to return the bike. But thanks for clarifying.

imatfaal

For a full refund I am also pretty sure that you have lost your opportunity (more due to usage than time passing) - but I would still bet you could get a partial refund. The representations made during the sales process made it easy and reasonable to believe that mudguards were easily fitted and intended to be fitted to this model of bike. This belief was a large portion of your decision to buy bike A rather than bike B. A consumer is allowed to rely on advertising, sales info, easily misunderstood representations etc - even if upon further examination these might turn out to be contradicted in other parts of the sales gumpf.

Those bikes are such good value I would tend to stick with it - and find a pair of mudguards you can "bodge on" but use a decent amount of helicopter tape on the frame and fork where you are going to attach and where anything might rub

awavey

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19721266#p19721266]Dinyull[/url] wrote:

I see your point, and think the OP has been unlucky re. what pop up or deal has appeared when he bought the bike.

Just think Planet X should offer to refund the guards or offer a replacement that will work instead of giving him bodge job options.

but isnt the problem they are nearly all bodge job options in this case given there arent any mudguard fittings on the frame, so whilst some guards may bodge into place better than others and some folk will call that working well, its only really when you attach mudguards properly to proper mounts and go oh its meant to be that easy is it, you realise how much a bodge some of them really still are.

dinyull

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19722211#p19722211]awavey[/url] wrote:

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19721266#p19721266]Dinyull[/url] wrote:

I see your point, and think the OP has been unlucky re. what pop up or deal has appeared when he bought the bike.

Just think Planet X should offer to refund the guards or offer a replacement that will work instead of giving him bodge job options.

but isnt the problem they are nearly all bodge job options in this case given there arent any mudguard fittings on the frame, so whilst some guards may bodge into place better than others and some folk will call that working well, its only really when you attach mudguards properly to proper mounts and go oh its meant to be that easy is it, you realise how much a bodge some of them really still are.

There are mudguards on the market that are made for bikes without mounts and therefore no bodging needed. Crud RoadRacers for 1.