This review is ridiculous, the innovation is on the handlebar mount, but that is what is NOT shown on the pictures, DAAAHH!

I bet it flaps around on descents.

'innovative handlebar mount'. if it was that good there wouldnt be a conviniently placed number plate in pic!

Looks cruddy too.

looks likea pile of crap,

First off, need better pictures and to try one obviously but...

To be honest i used to like the old arch mounted crud catchers, they flapped around a bit but once set up with a bit of extra effort worked really well (i used to find MOST of the spray was stopped, i may be wrong...), and as they were nearer the wheel they were out of the way and looked pretty cool. It's a shame they didn't become more popular, all they needed was a better arch mount design.

Anyone remember those?

Must be more aerodynamic than those neoguard things

What like a bloke riding a bike is aerodynamic! LOL! Wouldn't get one of these, and the neo guard is brill!

Reinventing the, er, mudguard. What they're showing here is a Shockboard with a stupid mounting and no protection behind the forks. Why even bother? Crud could make a great moto-style guard, no doubt, so why this weird thing?

my guess is that in a couple of months you'll have bought one. Now I don't get the Neo Guard, but hey we are all different.

Mr.Crud here

Since the late nineties, I have been toying with the idea of a proper motocross-style mudguard. With all the different fork styles out there, I have never really seriously thought it possible to make a truly universal, easy-to-fit, RELIABLE product that you could trust, so I didn't bother to make one.

This idea came to me only 3 months ago. I suddenly realised that all mountainbikes have nearly the same distance between handlebars and fork crown. I remember from the seventies that some motocross fenders were supported by a similar attatchment from the handlebars. and the idea was born.

I gave son Jamie the brief...hangs off the handlebars, looks good, works in conjunction with a crudcatcher, and 3 days later he came back with the basic design.

We went and showed the first prototype to Steve, who suggested some improvements, and within a few weeks we had finalised the design. We ordered the tool a month ago, and it was finished in time for Bikeradar.

We had pre-sold 2,500 just on the strength of Steve's involvment and various website releases before the tooling was even finished! and are in full production as I write this (3.6.09).

That is from concept to successful sales in 3 months. All British-made of course. We send the first batches to our German and US distributors later in the month.

It's Fort William next weekend. Am I the only person in the country praying for rain?

how do you get round the fact that when steering left or right the bike mud will flick up towards the upper body of the rider becuase the down tube is not blocking the mud?

I think this is only effective with a crud catcher as well. Cant you make one with an extended piece going vertically down then bending under the crown and over the other side of the wheel?