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09-20-11, 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Easy Peasy

I just saw in another thread that Planet Bike makes a fender called SpeedEZ that can be fitted onto bikes without eyelets. It appears they attach at the forks and seat stays with rubber straps. Who knew? I'm going to ask our LBS to see if they think they'll work on my MTB.

Yup, I've had a set of these for a couple years now. Hella usefull when you don't have multiple eyelets on your frame.

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Originally Posted by JAHowe

I wish I had a pic of this, but in Coralville, IA, I spotted a Pugsley with a Rollof 14 hub sporting a chunk of driftwood jammed under the rack, acting as a fender. If you can rock it, anything goes.

Really? The guy is running a Rohlof hub on his bike and using a ghetto fender set-up?

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