SKS-Germany Raceblade Pro XL?

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  • bungle73
    bungle73 Posts: 758
    lettingthedaysgoby wrote:
    Bungle73 wrote:
    It also says on the website the the bike accommodates mudguards with up to 28 mm tyres, and it doesn't...
    But not all 28mm tyres are exactly that size. The same tyre can come up completely different sizes when put on different width/shape rims.

    You are running 28mm tyres on a rim braked bike. That in itself is often pushing the limits of what fits.

    This is basic stuff.

    The bike takes up to 32s.......

    And 4 Seasons run small.
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Bungle73 wrote:
    The ones on the website that that they claim will fit are 35 mm. The ones I bought were 35 mm. Why would they be in the slightest bit different? Do I really have to waste my time ordering them, trying them, only to find that they were never going to fit in the first place to prove to you that they won't fit?
    Did you buy the ones on the website, or were they a different model?
  • bungle73
    bungle73 Posts: 758
    lettingthedaysgoby wrote:
    Bungle73 wrote:
    The ones on the website that that they claim will fit are 35 mm. The ones I bought were 35 mm. Why would they be in the slightest bit different? Do I really have to waste my time ordering them, trying them, only to find that they were never going to fit in the first place to prove to you that they won't fit?
    Did you buy the ones on the website, or were they a different model?

    https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/sks ... 84326?mx=a
  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    Bungle73 wrote:
    lettingthedaysgoby wrote:
    Bungle73 wrote:
    The ones on the website that that they claim will fit are 35 mm. The ones I bought were 35 mm. Why would they be in the slightest bit different? Do I really have to waste my time ordering them, trying them, only to find that they were never going to fit in the first place to prove to you that they won't fit?
    Did you buy the ones on the website, or were they a different model?

    https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/sks ... 84326?mx=a
    Pft, should have gone to Merlin.
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Bungle73 wrote:
    lettingthedaysgoby wrote:
    Bungle73 wrote:
    The ones on the website that that they claim will fit are 35 mm. The ones I bought were 35 mm. Why would they be in the slightest bit different? Do I really have to waste my time ordering them, trying them, only to find that they were never going to fit in the first place to prove to you that they won't fit?
    Did you buy the ones on the website, or were they a different model?

    https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/sks ... 84326?mx=a
    So, that’s a “no” then.

    If only the manufacturer of your bike recommended a set they say would fit, eh?
  • big_harv
    big_harv Posts: 512
    Bungle, you must have spent half a year's salary on mudguards. At the beginning of this thread you were (relunctantly perhaps) going with Raceblades. You've had a previous battle with the world on this here forum about mudguards. And you're arguing now and generally being unpleasant.

    Forget mudguards. Get your bike dirty, wash, ride- repeat.
  • bungle73
    bungle73 Posts: 758
    The fucking things are rubbing again.
    lettingthedaysgoby wrote:
    Bungle73 wrote:
    lettingthedaysgoby wrote:
    Bungle73 wrote:
    The ones on the website that that they claim will fit are 35 mm. The ones I bought were 35 mm. Why would they be in the slightest bit different? Do I really have to waste my time ordering them, trying them, only to find that they were never going to fit in the first place to prove to you that they won't fit?
    Did you buy the ones on the website, or were they a different model?

    https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/sks ... 84326?mx=a
    So, that’s a “no” then.

    If only the manufacturer of your bike recommended a set they say would fit, eh?

    Why are you acting like you know for a fact they will fit when I know for a fact that they won't? They are the SAME SIZE as the ones I tried and they DID NOT FIT. I've already told you that the Crud mudguards are tight. Why won't you people ever listen to what you have been told? The ONLY reason they fit at all is because they narrow substantially as they pass under the brake bridge!
  • bungle73
    bungle73 Posts: 758
    Big Harv wrote:
    Bungle, you must have spent half a year's salary on mudguards. At the beginning of this thread you were (relunctantly perhaps) going with Raceblades. You've had a previous battle with the world on this here forum about mudguards. And you're arguing now and generally being unpleasant.

    Forget mudguards. Get your bike dirty, wash, ride- repeat.

    Er no I'm not. How am I?
  • bungle73
    bungle73 Posts: 758
    Right. I've left a message on their Facebook page asking if they will fit. The fact that they are marketed as "hybrid" mudguards pretty much suggests that they are not designed do fit road bikes with tight clearances to me..........
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    Bungle73 wrote:
    Right. I've left a message on their Facebook page asking if they will fit. The fact that they are marketed as "hybrid" mudguards pretty much suggests that they are not designed do fit road bikes with tight clearances to me..........

    It’s not the mudguards bungle it’s the enormous tyres.

    Get some smaller tyres that are compatible with your bike when fitted with mudguards.

    Or stop slavishly following marketing bumf and ditch the bouncy castles tyres and mudguards and ride your bike. You need to wash your clothes and bike afterwards anyway and I can’t imagine you ride with anyone else for the mudguards to be a social consideration
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Bungle73 wrote:
    Right. I've left a message on their Facebook page asking if they will fit. The fact that they are marketed as "hybrid" mudguards pretty much suggests that they are not designed do fit road bikes with tight clearances to me..........
    If only there were 2 types of that model, “hybrid” and “road”.

    Wouldn’t that be a thing?

    https://www.wiggle.co.uk/sks-commuter-road-mudguard/
  • ayjaycee
    ayjaycee Posts: 1,277
    Bungle73 wrote:
    Why are you acting like you know for a fact they will fit when I know for a fact that they won't? They are the SAME SIZE as the ones I tried and they DID NOT FIT. I've already told you that the Crud mudguards are tight. Why won't you people ever listen to what you have been told? The ONLY reason they fit at all is because they narrow substantially as they pass under the brake bridge!

    But when I asked what brakes you were trying to use, you said:
    Bungle73 wrote:
    The brakes aren't the issue. They are long drop anyway. They have plenty of space.

    I think it's time to take the bike to the LBS and let an adult do the job, get wet and dirty or get rid of the bike and look at this whole sorry saga as an upgrade opportunity.
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  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    ayjaycee wrote:
    Bungle73 wrote:
    Why are you acting like you know for a fact they will fit when I know for a fact that they won't? They are the SAME SIZE as the ones I tried and they DID NOT FIT. I've already told you that the Crud mudguards are tight. Why won't you people ever listen to what you have been told? The ONLY reason they fit at all is because they narrow substantially as they pass under the brake bridge!

    But when I asked what brakes you were trying to use, you said:
    Bungle73 wrote:
    The brakes aren't the issue. They are long drop anyway. They have plenty of space.

    I think it's time to take the bike to the LBS and let an adult do the job, get wet and dirty or get rid of the bike and look at this whole sorry saga as an upgrade opportunity.
    you cant advise him to go to a shop, he'll call you a troll and tell you to "wee-wee" off.
    anyway, he's found one set that wont fit therefore all mudguards are the same and none will fit, ever!

    I commute every day and only use an arrse-saver. I have toe covers if i need them and the down tube keeps most of the water off me. The bike gets cleaned down and relubed monthly. I have some minor corrosion on some stainless steel cap head screws but I can swap them out at the end of the winter.
    If you really don't want to get wet buy a bus-pass.
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    darkhairedlord wrote:
    I commute every day and only use an arrse-saver. I have toe covers if i need them and the down tube keeps most of the water off me. The bike gets cleaned down and relubed monthly. I have some minor corrosion on some stainless steel cap head screws but I can swap them out at the end of the winter.
    If you really don't want to get wet buy a bus-pass.
    While I admire your determination, full length guards to me have been an utter revelation, arriving somewhere clean and dry is fantastic.
  • ayjaycee
    ayjaycee Posts: 1,277
    lettingthedaysgoby wrote:
    While I admire your determination, full length guards to me have been an utter revelation, arriving somewhere clean and dry is fantastic.

    Wot e sed.
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  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    lettingthedaysgoby wrote:
    darkhairedlord wrote:
    I commute every day and only use an arrse-saver. I have toe covers if i need them and the down tube keeps most of the water off me. The bike gets cleaned down and relubed monthly. I have some minor corrosion on some stainless steel cap head screws but I can swap them out at the end of the winter.
    If you really don't want to get wet buy a bus-pass.
    While I admire your determination, full length guards to me have been an utter revelation, arriving somewhere clean and dry is fantastic.
    I had some SKS full length guards on the trek but my current ride doesn't have the eyelets or space. I never got around to faffing with p-clips and the like and they are still in the shed 3/4 years later. Perhaps when the Wibble r872 is due for retirement i'll get a old mans bike like a genesis equi-thingy to hang them on.
  • paulbnix
    paulbnix Posts: 632
    Bungle73 wrote:
    So what are saying is that they are a piece of junk?

    No I didn't say that. When I first fitted them they were fine.
    I left them on that bike and they stayed ok.

    I then removed and refitted a few times and never managed to get them as good as they were.
  • svetty
    svetty Posts: 1,904
    DFTT

    Or should that be DFTMF?
    FFS! Harden up and grow a pair :D
  • bungle73
    bungle73 Posts: 758
    These mudguards are pure JUNK. Do not buy them. Every single time I get them set so they don't rub when I get ready to ride the bike a few days later they start rubbing again. This frame is supposed to take mudguards with up to 28 mm tyres, and these mudguards are supposed to be for road bikes with tight clearances, so somebody is LYING! And according to people here I'm supposed to base a buying decision on what they say? Riiiight.
  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    "There's always that one guy....."
  • bungle73
    bungle73 Posts: 758
    Oh, and another thing, I asked Mango about it on their FB page and they ignored me, just like I said I would. I think I'm going to order the Raceblades. I don't care what anyone here thinks the ones on the website won't fit, and I know that for a fact.
  • bungle73
    bungle73 Posts: 758
    I thought I could pick them up from my local Halfords and have them today, but then I realised the ones I was looking at on the website were the normal version and not the XL version
  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    Step away from the keyboard and enjoy your Christmas before its gone.
  • sandyballs
    sandyballs Posts: 577
    Even with the comedy value, life is too short for this.......
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Bungle73 wrote:
    These mudguards are pure JUNK. Do not buy them. Every single time I get them set so they don't rub when I get ready to ride the bike a few days later they start rubbing again. This frame is supposed to take mudguards with up to 28 mm tyres, and these mudguards are supposed to be for road bikes with tight clearances, so somebody is LYING! And according to people here I'm supposed to base a buying decision on what they say? Riiiight.
    Nobody is lying.

    “Up to 28mm”.
  • bungle73
    bungle73 Posts: 758
    lettingthedaysgoby wrote:
    Bungle73 wrote:
    These mudguards are pure JUNK. Do not buy them. Every single time I get them set so they don't rub when I get ready to ride the bike a few days later they start rubbing again. This frame is supposed to take mudguards with up to 28 mm tyres, and these mudguards are supposed to be for road bikes with tight clearances, so somebody is LYING! And according to people here I'm supposed to base a buying decision on what they say? Riiiight.
    Nobody is lying.

    “Up to 28mm”.

    And that is what I am ruining, so how are not they lying?????
  • bungle73
    bungle73 Posts: 758
    Sandyballs wrote:
    Even with the comedy value, life is too short for this.......

    Do you realise how angry it makes to me have a huge problem that is driving me up the wall, only to have some fucking clown in the internet think it's funny. Do you?
  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    Bungle73 wrote:
    Sandyballs wrote:
    Even with the comedy value, life is too short for this.......

    Do you realise how angry it makes to me have a huge problem that is driving me up the wall, only to have some ******* clown in the internet think it's funny. Do you?

    No offence Bungle, but stuff your fake internet anger. Mudguards 'not fitting' is not a huge problem. Something like being homeless at christmas would be a huge problem. Get a grip, ffs.
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Bungle73 wrote:
    lettingthedaysgoby wrote:
    Bungle73 wrote:
    These mudguards are pure JUNK. Do not buy them. Every single time I get them set so they don't rub when I get ready to ride the bike a few days later they start rubbing again. This frame is supposed to take mudguards with up to 28 mm tyres, and these mudguards are supposed to be for road bikes with tight clearances, so somebody is LYING! And according to people here I'm supposed to base a buying decision on what they say? Riiiight.
    Nobody is lying.

    “Up to 28mm”.

    And that is what I am ruining, so how are not they lying?????
    Because as has been explained to you, just because it says 28mm on the sidewall they may not actually be that size. Different rims can make them size up a bit. You are right on the limit. So they may not fit.

    Solutions have been offered to you - use 25mm tyres, get the guards the people who mke your bike reccomend. But, as ever, you know best.
  • sandyballs
    sandyballs Posts: 577
    A huge problem? 1st world cycling problems!

    And your anger is the funniest bit, the’re mudguards not an actual life changing problem. Google how many people are using food banks or homeless this Xmas or children at risk!

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