New Merida Ride Endurance Road Bike

Fender mounts on carbon? Excellent! There is a good reason this segment of “fast and comfortable” is growing.

And now we know which 49% of Specialized is owned by Merida, Jesse.

Elastomers ? Is Specialized going to sue itself ? I bet they’ll do that. For one dollar.

@Bike Rob

Fender mounts are a small, and light, addition that make a bike much more versatile. I’m not a fair–weather rider. While I ride my cross bike most of the winter it would be nice if I could throw fenders on my road bike in the early spring when weather and road conditions can be sloppy but I still want to get miles on my race bike before the first race of the season. Some people don’t have two bikes as well. Having full fenders all winter makes it a lot easier, and more comfortable, to ride.

Don’t worry though.No one will ever doubt your “performance.” These mounts are pretty tough to notice.

My “performance” bike also has a pump-peg and a chain pip. I bet it’s still faster than yours.

@Bike Rob.

Provided there’s actually come clearance at the brakes (unlike a big American brand) then having the ability to put mudguards on a bike is hugely convenient. It means you don’t have to put up with riding a crappy ‘winter bike’ and you can carry on riding something decent all year round.

Given modern technology could give improvements to the performance of longer drop calipers and advances in carbon technology meaning bridges on stays and forks could be moved without any loss in stiffness, there’s no reason what-so-ever that all bikes can’t come with these hidden eyelets.

On the Gary Fisher Cronus (the proper road bike, not the CX bike) the fixing bolts for the brake calipers had a thread inside them for the top of the mudguard to fix into so you could take them off without having to remove the brakes.