Mouse
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As part of last night's mammoth GS fettling session, I fitted a mudguard extender - bought from Allan Jeffries for about 22 quid. It's a bit flash for me, but I couldn't find any suitable material to make my own from 
To remove the front wheel, you need some suitable ballast to lift the front of the bike off the ground.
Taking the wheel off is easy enough, undo the torx bolt at the bottom of the offside fork leg, and then undo the spindle using a 21mm hex wrench (one is supplied in the toolkit). I might be wrong about it being 21mm, so check this before buying a tool for the job.
The mudguard is attached to the lower fork bracket with four torx screws, which are threadlocked in. So be careful getting them out, go slowly and don't force them.
The extender came supplied with four self tapping screws, but experience tells me that these aren't really up to the job. Therefore I used four small bolts with nylock nuts. Luckily there is plenty of clearance between the tyre and the mudguard, so the nuts are in no danger of fouling the tyre. Maybe you wouldn't want to do it like this if you habitually go off road though, and maybe off road tyres would be larger - I am not sure.
Like a total idjit I didn't take a pic of the finshed job, I'll post one later!
To remove the front wheel, you need some suitable ballast to lift the front of the bike off the ground.
Taking the wheel off is easy enough, undo the torx bolt at the bottom of the offside fork leg, and then undo the spindle using a 21mm hex wrench (one is supplied in the toolkit). I might be wrong about it being 21mm, so check this before buying a tool for the job.
The mudguard is attached to the lower fork bracket with four torx screws, which are threadlocked in. So be careful getting them out, go slowly and don't force them.
The extender came supplied with four self tapping screws, but experience tells me that these aren't really up to the job. Therefore I used four small bolts with nylock nuts. Luckily there is plenty of clearance between the tyre and the mudguard, so the nuts are in no danger of fouling the tyre. Maybe you wouldn't want to do it like this if you habitually go off road though, and maybe off road tyres would be larger - I am not sure.
Like a total idjit I didn't take a pic of the finshed job, I'll post one later!
