Anyone tried this? I'm fed up of coming home after a ride out covered in mud from head to toe both fore and aft.
Doug Gosling - remember him! - told me that retrofitting the rear mudguard was really difficult - I think that it would certainly involve removing the rear wheel to gain access to the two allen nuts which appear to hold the truncated rear guard in place. If that's as bad as it gets I think that I could cope with doing the swap...
John
Hi John
I have fitted full mudguards on my 905se. It's not that big a deal actually. You don't have to totally remove the rear wheel, just free up a bit of cable (take off the clips and cable tie), loosen the wheel nuts and drop the wheel out out of the dropouts, and you'll easily have enough access to fit the mudguards. Fitting the front guards involves a little inventive wire bending to fit the supports, but again its not that hard and is well worth doing if you ride a lot at this time of year. Incidentally if you want to completely remove the rear wheel just undo the panel under the battery to get access to the controller, pull all the lot out and disconnect the plugs from the rear wheel, you can now remove the wheel. It is a bit of a fiddle, but much seems to be made of it which is unnecessary in my view, as it's really not that hard to do. Getting the controller and all the wires back in is a bit of a hassle, they are a tight fit in the tiny space available!
Incidentally, on the front mudguard try not to use the disc mount points for the mudguard support on the left side. This can make your disc very vulnerable to going out of adjustment all the time. There is a threaded hole on the fork higher up from the disc, with a bit of trimming and bending the support can be placed there without causing problems for your disc brake.
Hope it helps,
Cheers, Phil
