Portland Design Works Full Metal Fenders - 700c x 45 mm
Made of sturdy anodized aluminum and adorned with laser graphics, the 700c x 45 mm Portland Design Works Full Metal Fenders fit bikes with 700c wheels and tires up to 35 mm to keep you dry on rides.
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- The 700c x 45 mm Full Metal Fenders are designed for bicycles with 700c x 35 mm tires maximum
- These provide full-wrap coverage, even shielding your shoes and riders on your rear wheel thanks to extra-long and superflexible mud flaps
- Safety release tabs ensure your wheels keep turning even if debris gets lodged between the fender and tire
- These come with all the necessary hardware to mount to bikes with brazed-on eyelets
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View all Portland Design Works Bike Fenders| Best Use | Road Cycling Urban Cycling |
|---|---|
| Fender Type | Set |
| Material(s) | Anodized aluminum |
| Max Tire Width | 35 millimeters |
| Weight | 568 grams |
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high quality
High quality, fits my 700x38c tires. Installation was simple, fits even with my rack (though I did have to saw some bolts on the rack to allow the rear fender enough space). Comes with multiple means of successfully installing.
Nicely made, but with a few gotchas
Since I live in Portland, I sort of felt like I had to go with the PDW fenders on my new ride. They look classy, though I found them to be a little harder to install than the SKS 'chromoplast' fenders I have been rocking on my old commuter. But fenders are always a pain, and always a little different on every frame. They have worked fine in the wet so far (only a couple of days, it's summer after all). My only real complaint is that the aluminum is much noisier than plastic fenders, it rattles and shakes, even with all the bolts tightened well.
Durable and well designed to be strong.
These keep the rain off and fit right. I have dropped my bike a few times hitting the side mounting wires and fenders but they did not bend or break. It is well made.
Fenders—great!— but the mudflaps? 0/5
The fenders themselves are awesome in every way—they have an excellent design, are easy to install, and the build quality is fantastic—for every component except for one—the mudflaps. Seriously, I can't understand why you would take the time to design and manufacture such a great product to include the cheapest possible mudflaps made out of thin sheet plastic. The biggest problem with the mudflaps is the material they're made out of of—thin (cheap) polypropylene. It has almost no durability, and worst of all, in cold temps it's incredibly brittle, so if you ride in cold weather and happen to catch the mudflap against anything, it WILL crack or shatter. Super disappointed that the rubber mudflaps that come with the 30mm size for these fenders is not available in the other sizes. A poly replacement is available for $8, but I'm not stoked to spend $8 to replace a component that I know will simply get damaged again. There's a $29 option leather mudflap, but who wants leather mudflaps? And for a shop that I otherwise had a lot of respect for, I think an offering like that, in the absence of something more practical, just comes across as tacky. Come on, PDW. Before this you were practically the only hope for capable, sensibly PNW-appropriate bike accessories... Please redeem yourselves and offer a middle-road option with better material properties!
wet feet
Beautiful construction, appear initially to have great coverage. Unfortunately with any significant rain the beveled edges are not enough to keep side splash out, the rain flap bolts catch the stream of water going down the middle and spray sideways. I will be going back to planet bike brand.
Great durability and coverage!
After years of using plastic fenders from the other popular brands and seeing them break after ~1 year of use, I decided to invest in these metal fenders. I've now been using them for daily commutes for 10,000+ miles and they are still going strong! In addition, I've even been on some mild singletrack and they did fine on the rough terrain and with the lack of cushion from my skinny 28mm road tires.
too rattlely and shaky
Would be better if the attachment brackets were thicker gauge steel instead of just a mm, too shaky and would rub on tires because of this, and would repeatedly bend out of place. I could probably make an improved bracket it for it myself, but for over 100 dollars, I shouldn’t have to.