Buy SKS Chromoplastics black (Design: 26 inch / 26 x 2.1-2.35)SKS Chromoplastics black (Design: 26 inch / 26 x 2.1-2.35) Product Description:
- Operating Range: City- / Touring
- Type: universal, rear or front
- Mudguards-Build: mudguard
- Wheel Size: 26Inch
- Wheel Size: 28Inch
Product Description
- Operating Range: City- / Touring
- Type: universal, rear or front
- Wheel Size:
- 26 Inch
- 28 Inch
- Mudguards:
- Build: mudguard
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78 of 80 people found the following review helpful.
By yurituri
I originally bought these for my 26" x 1.75" tires since the Amazon description says they are for 26" tires. However, according to the SKS packaging, they are actually for 700c tires, which I found to be the case when lining up the V-bar supports. You end up with a lot of extra metal sticking out past the fenders on 26" tires, which is unsightly. (You could cut them, but that would be more hassle than it's worth.) The SKS P65's would be too wide for my bike, and the P55's are impossible to find anywhere, so I got the Planet Bike Cascadia ATB 60mm fenders instead, which are awesome and much easier to install (the V-bar supports come pre-installed on the Planet Bike fenders). The SKS fenders allow you to put the V-bar supports anywhere you want on the fenders, in case you have other things on your bike that get in the way, such as a rear rack, for example, but the number of nuts and bolts you see when opening the package is slightly daunting. I have a rear rack on my bike, though, and had no problem with the Planet Bike fender supports getting in the way of anything.This is the proper mapping of SKS fender size to tire size, according to the SKS package:P35700x20,23,25,28P45700x25,28,32,35P50700x35,38,40,42,45P5526x1.0,1.25,1.5P6526x1.6,1.75,1.9,2.1
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
By A. Marchant-Shapiro
It's funny...if you're a road cyclist, you'll care a *lot* about your Shimano Ultegra Brakes, or some other cool component. Those are all great, but you only use your brakes to stop. Fenders don't get much love, but if you want to invest a little in being comfortable on a bike, put on a set of fenders. They keep road guck off you, and off your drivetrain, and they make riding in the rain a comfortable experience. (Remember, what comes down is clean, what comes up? Less so.) Or, as BSNYC points out with respect to urban riding, that shallow puddle *may* be water. Or maybe it's something else.I have installed six sets of fenders over the past fifteen years or so--some were plastic, some were stainless steel. This was my first set of SKS fenders, which are built (except for their low-end models, I believe) out of an aluminum and plastic sandwich. The sandwich makes the fenders easy to reshape if they get a little bent in shipping (Kudos to Amazon, they were shipped so well they needed no fixing). They come with almost all the hardware you need. And of all the fenders I've mounted, these are the easiest.Here's the deal on hardware and installation: Ideally, your bike should have rack/fender eyelets at the wheel mounts (dropouts) if you want to use these. The struts for the fenders bolt on there (with the very nice included hardware). The bike I was fendering, an 1985 Trek 560, lacked eyelets, so a trip to Home Despot yielded two 1/2" padded steel cable clamps, which went around the fork legs and provided a mounting point, and two 1/4" clamps, which went around the bottom of the seatstays and did the same in back. Total cost for the clamps was $3--if I had a nearby bike shop, I probably could have had them for free. Anyway, the struts mount there, and the front fender also mounts on the caliper brake bolt. If you're using cantilever or V-brakes, you may need to improvise a mount at the fork crown. The rear fender mounts at the rear brake bridge (same story for non-caliper users) and at chainstay bridge, either with a bolt (if the bridge is set up for one) or with a clip. The struts attach with an odd kind of barrel nut assembly, but once you see them you'll understand how they work, and any extra strut that projects above the fenders can be covered with a plastic tip (or you can use a Dremel tool with a cut-off wheel, as I did, to remove the extra above the nut). It'll take maybe an hour or so without help, maybe a little less with, to install a set.PROS: Very lightweight--they will not make your bike feel heavy. Very quiet--properly installed, they will not clank or rattle. Nice-looking, if you can see them at all (mine fit so close, it doesn't look like the bike is even wearing fenders unless you look closely). Well-shaped--this takes a little explaining: Some fenders, like those from Planet Bike, are curved in cross-section to follow the curve of the tire. SKS fenders are not--they're flat across most of the width, with edges that project down to shield the sides of the tire. For my money, they fit better under brakes this way, and should do a better job of containing water that gets thrown off by the tire.CONS: The front fender could be a little bit longer--ideally, you want the front fender to throw spray that remains on the top of the tire down onto the road, so you'd want the fender about 3" longer in front. But these work fine unless you're in really heavy rain. The instructions could be clearer--they may be hard for a first-time fender installer to follow. And that's about it.NOTES: These (SKS P35) are rated for 700c tires up to 28mm in width. Personally, I wouldn't want to use them for tires wider than 25mm. Fortunately, SKS makes fenders just like these in all sorts of widths, so you can find just the right ones for your bike.Also, I noted in an earlier review of the Axiom Streamliner rack that I didn't know if fenders would be able to fit under such a narrow rack. The P35s do fit, so you can have a lightweight bike with rack AND fenders.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
By Ralph W. Stumbo Jr.
My wife and I have made the decision to ride year round this year... rain or shine. This being the case I decided that we needed better fenders. We had the kind that clamp onto your seat post. those work well to keep your butt dry, but do nothing to keep your bike clean or are any good for the people riding behind you. So I set out in search of some coverage for both the front and the back.I tried three other types of fenders and was told that with the compact frame geometry of the Giant, the only ones that were going to work were the "Blades". So I actually had those installed on my wife's bike for a ride. They were difficult to get into the "right" position so that they didn't rub. What we found is that they don't stay in place very well even with the supplied zip ties. The had to be readjusted once we got to where we were going to ride as they did not fair very well on the bike rack. Then during the ride, mostly on a paved trail, they had to be re-adjusted again for rubbing. Back to the store they went.Then I found these. Full coverage of the tire (blades were only partial) keeps the road grime off the bike and out of the moving parts.Others have said that they are difficult to put on. I would not say difficult, but if you are not real mechanical you may want to pay your local shop to install them for you.As is the usual case with something like this, the first ones took about 90 minutes to install and the second set about 30 minutes. What I found is that for the Giant bikes the SS supports were about 5/8" too long. So, I used a hacksaw and made them shorter to allow for a closer, more uniformed clearance all the way around the tire. On the fronts the one closest to the fork was cut again another ½ inch. What I also found was it was best to install the SS supports and have it all together before installing it. (On the back don't install the little clip at the front/bottom edge until you have the brake support clip on first) Start with the supports all the way out and then you can re-adjust them at the end when you have put the wheel back on. Take the front wheel off, take off the brake and install the support on the brake post and then re-install the brakes. Then install the black plastic support to the fork. On our bikes we don't have a place on the fork to bolt them to the front fork so I used wrapped a few wraps of black plastic electricians tape around the fork and then put a zip tie through hole in the plastic support. I put a second zip tie across at about 60 degrees and they are on there real secure.One thing I would suggest is to get an additional "mud flap" to put on the end of both the front and back. They can be found on Amazon as "bike hugger buddy flap". This really completes the set.We rode in the rain on Sunday and did not get wet from the road. During the ride down there on the bike rack these fenders did not move. They never needed adjustment on the ride and I checked them after the ride back home and was still secure. Perfect! And more importantly, our bikes were clean. No sand and grit all over our bikes! And riding behind each other is now possible again in the rain without getting a facial dermabrasion!Hope this helps... happy riding!
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