Steerer Tube mudguard fettle advice ?

[HumpTdumpty]

Hi All

Would like to fit mudhugger gravel front mudguard on my bike RIbble 725 but not attach using the advised zip ties around the forks etc

Bike only has a normal sized steerer tube screw thread fixing option - mudguards have no mounting etc

Que - Is it as simple as drilling a hole and fixing ? I’m sure from the above you can rightly assume I’m in the “Bodge it” category of mechanical knowledge!

Thoughts suggestions advice gratefully received

Regards HumpT

 

[Cycleops]

We need pics!

 

[Sittingduck]

Drilling, through what? I don’t get it.

 

[bikingdad90]

P clips?

 

[figbat]

Expander plug up the bottom of the steerer tube and used as an anchor point?

 

[HumpTdumpty]

First pic is a slightly blurred under shot of steerer tube fork with mounting hole then two potential examples of the type of mudguard lastly general pic of bike

Hope that helps

 

[Jenkins]

If that is a Ribble CGR 725 as I suspect from you picture, you won't want to drill through anything on the fork as it's carbon. Why not go with the SKS P45s (or 65s if you have 650B wheels) that Ribble sell as an option with the bike?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Time for a new bike to fit your mudguard I’m afraid.

 

[MichaelW2]

Time for a new bike to fit your mudguard I’m afraid.

My rule is that if the bike not for podiuming then it should be rack and mudguard-ready.

 

[Venod]

As far as I can see The Ribble 725 comes with mudguard mounts, a mudguard that suits the mounts would be a better solution than bodging one to fit.

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

My rule is that if the bike not for podiuming then it should be rack and mudguard-ready.

I take the view that all bikes should be capable of taking full bolt-on mudguards, even if they are mainly only used in fair weather. In the steel era, only outright track/race bikes had no provision for mudguards. Everything else, from 3-speed utilities down to lightweight 531 framed sports/fitness riding bikes, at least had the ability to fit them if needed.

 

[avecReynolds531]

My rule is that if the bike not for podiuming then it should be rack and mudguard-ready.

+ 1

Our bikes have mudguards: the weight isn't much more than a full water bottle, and the protection - for bike & owner - from stone chips, winter roads, rain, grit & mud are worthwhile. This leads to decreased time/ expense spent for cleaning/ maintenance, and it can be miserable getting soaked in freezing rain, as I remember well.

One favourite story about bikes & mudguards is told at Classic Lightweights. Major Nichols, the revered Black Country frame builder was once asked for a pure racing frame - with no mudguard clearance or eyes: 'Major’s reponse to the last item was ‘Don’t be bloody daft, do you think it’s never going to bloody well rain?’. The frame duly arrived, with mudguard eyes...'*

* https://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/classic_builders/the-major-nichols-bicycle/

 

[HumpTdumpty]

As ever many thanks all for your words of wisdom much appreciated