Mudguards for a 2020 Cannondale Synapse

[ian in lancs]

Has anyone fitted or able to recommend mudguards to a 2020 Cannondale Synapse? It has eyelets on the inside of the fork legs and the back of the fork crown and at the back eyelets on the inside of the seat stays and the rear of the bottom bracket. Both front and rear, therefore, have decent 3-point fixings. I can't find mudguards to fit that arrangement. Any ideas?

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Thanks!

Edited by ian in lancs on Sunday 11th October 08:44

[ian in lancs]

Thanks for that. I'm on discs too. I saw the SKS ones but not keen on fiddling to fit approach. Its interesting that Cannondale make a big deal of the mounting eyelets but don't make anything to fit.

[ian in lancs]

Brilliant, thanks!

[ian in lancs]

Update! And ‘learnings’

First off I needed a seat stay bridge as there isn’t one on a carbon disc synapse. Eventually found one in stock - £15 for a bit of plastic….

I ordered SKS Bluemels Mudguard Set, Matt Black, 35 mm, 28 Inch (for 32mm GP5000 tyres). I spent ages trying, to no avail, to stop the guards rubbing. Set returned and £35 refunded.

I bought some Bontrager mudguards; ‘NCS Fender’ for £40. The fasteners didn’t have the right dias/lengths for the Synapse so a trip to B&Q to be ripped off to the tune of £21 for 3mm, 4mm and 6mm allen bolts. I gave up explaining loctite to 3 assistants...

These mudguards went straight on and much easier to stop the rubbing. All good!

However, my shoes foul the mudguard. Particularly the rubber mudflap. Not so good. The 175 cranks, size 9’s leave about 10mm clearance – not enough for a front mudguard! The options were return the lot, remove the front mudguard or cut the front mudguard short. I went for the last option and chopped about 6” off. Not quite what I wanted but solved the problem.

£76 FFS!

Edited by ian in lancs on Saturday 14th November 19:11

[ian in lancs]

Juffled said:

Toe overlap is just a result of realistic bike sizing and the type of bike the general public should ride as a collective (shorter top tube/reach than pros), obviously there will be some outliers. I'm short, all my frames have toe overlap, does it actually matter and impact me when I ride, no, its highly unlikely you are turning your road bike front wheel beyond your pedal stroke at any speed that isn't below about 5mph, if your doing it while pedalling at speed then your doing it wrong/its basically impossible as that's not how road bikes turn.

Obviously adding overshoes and mudguards doesn't help the simple dimensions of the whole thing but its not something you can fix without going for a more stretched out frame with a really short stem, which will then make the handling more twitchy/direct like a mountain bike (small movements have a large effect).

If you want a fix then try shorter cranks, its unlikely you should be on 175mm cranks anyway, having said that 5mm is unlikely to make a difference really.

Anyone who says its bad frame design etc is incorrect (Source: Me, I design bikes, some of you even ride them).

Edited by Juffled on Sunday 15th November 09:28

I'm 185.5cm with a saddle height of 81cm on a 58cm bike. All my road/mountain bikes have 175mm cranks and I agree that for general road riding overlap might not be an issue except for the get you out of trouble manoeuvres or zig-zagging on a climb. However, I'd rather risk wet feet (that can be waterproofed) than unnecessary fouling of feet and shorts!

Edited by ian in lancs on Sunday 15th November 13:11

[ian in lancs]

If that works for you fair enough!

I've cut it anyway so they'll be no issues with overlap.