These look good with a little more style than the SKS raceguards and the recent ones from Topeak.

Good price and the road alternative to their off road Crudcatcher which is excellent.

Rear could do with being a little longer as on our wet club runs we have to have a flap...

Yes agree the rear could do with been a bit longer, but the days off all riders using mudflaps has gone im afraid.

i have been using the brake piviot bolt to ziptie my mudguards to bike for years, gives you 2 to 5mm more clearence as it pulls the guard right up to the frame, and up to the bridge of the forks, and no brackets to break.

These look great - cheaper than the SKS too, if the performance is good I will be getting some.

looks like a useful alternative to raceblades, but the coverage does not look good enough for serious winter work - especially in a group...

Yes softlad, not suitable for real serious winter work, but perfect for bikes like that beauty above. You won't get plastic thin enough to fit between tyre and seattube on most classy roadbikes. That's the kind of bikes the 'roadracers' are aimed at.

Cheers

Mr.C

It doesn`t look as if there is any clearance at all.

Do they fit on a Giant Defy?!

Should do - I've a Defy 4 and will be fitting them as soon as they arrive then will update my post in the Commuting section: http://www.bikeradar.com/road/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12644557&highlight=

Pat...

i've always fancied some 'fake tyre' mudguards like on this car:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/carreviews/supercars/2736860/Racing-green.html

However, i'm too lazy to make some. These look good to me, i'd certainly be interested. plenty of other mudguards for proper winter coverage. These look ideal for frames without much clearance.

Couple of Youtube videos courtesy of the Tompkins camera

Install

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJuJXk8aJs8

Crash test

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55thL5q6hxs

Compared to the SKS race blades, they look better, have better contact points and longer coverage - i like that the later part of the blades are thinned as there is less water at this point and reduces opportunity for rubbing. Have you also seen those white fluffy pads - great idea to keep blades off wheels.

It's such a wasted opportunity to not make the rear longer - it may as well finish 6" shorter (like raceblades) as to go any longer is only to help someone behind you and they don't go far enough around for that so you're still only saving yourself from a wet arse.

Planning to avoid them given how much the MTB raceguards suck (fine if you never want to take them off but someone tell me how good design involves a metal shallow-grooved bolt in a plastic surround - a three year old could tell you it will round off the plastic but these guys who spent months designing them couldn't...).

"Planning to avoid them"

What does that actually mean?

these do look good, who's selling them? I've only found cyclelife so far...

http://www.cyclelife.com/Product.aspx?pc=2&pt=125&pg=4899

I think they are only going out to the shops this week.

Pat...

I have a Cervelo Soloist Team as my 'second' bike, but fitting any kind of mudguard to the front wheel is almost impossible, as the gap between the tyre and the down-tube is tiny, due to the aero profiling/geometry. Perhaps these will do the trick???

at last a set of mudguards that look cool ! ...us bike tarts can stay dry now lol!

Just proves us Brits can design stuff just as good looking as those pesky Italians !

Well done Crud! These look better than anything else so I'll probably treat myself. Agree they could be a little longer at the back, maybe flairing out like the classic flap?

I've posted a short review here: http://www.forgot.co.uk/?p=269

Went straight to my barber's for a haircut straight from work last week in torrential rain and sat in the chair for 20 minutes with a soaking wet arse!

Been looking for a while for suitable guards for my Shorter "Calida" and these look to be just the job - Gonna buy just as soon as I get back from holiday.

All the advanced technology in bicycles and these come down to bits of plastic and rubber bands!!

Not convinced that plastic is a good one to use. What happened to Aluminium? They were good and caught all manner of crud and didn't act like a foil for a wind hitting you sideways and knocking you off your bike like you were confetti! The distance between tyre and crud-catcher needs to be further apart to stop bunging it up - remember Crud happens - make sure your not one of them!