"Adrian Boliston" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Even in winter i'd say only 10% of trips or less get enough water on the road to throw up much spray. Fit mudguards and you have extra weight & wind resistance and general rattles etc for those 90%+ dry trips when they serve no purpose.
Depends on locality m'lud. Here in deepest rural Norfik many a rural road is swathed in nasties and IMO, mudguards are an essential bit of winter kit on one's steed. If one does not have mudguards on one's steed, one very quickly ends up looking like one has participated in the Paris-Roubaix on a wet day.
"wafflycat" <w*a*ff£y£cat*@£btco*nn£ect.com> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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"Adrian Boliston" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Even in winter i'd say only 10% of trips or less get enough water on the road to throw up much spray. Fit mudguards and you have extra weight & wind resistance and general rattles etc for those 90%+ dry trips when they serve no purpose.
Depends on locality m'lud. Here in deepest rural Norfik many a rural road is swathed in nasties and IMO, mudguards are an essential bit of winter kit on one's steed. If one does not have mudguards on one's steed, one very quickly ends up looking like one has participated in the Paris-Roubaix on a wet day.
Cheers, helen s
My last bike just had a mudguard attached to the down tube but had no rear mudguard at all. The pannier rack would protect my back -- or so I thought. But it didn't work -- in wet conditions I was splattered all up and down my back Also there was a lot of mud thrown forward on to the seat tube and the front derailleur mechanisms. My cycling is all based around long distance touring -- which means in all weathers and so keeping me and my bike mud and dirt free is important to me and my comfort!
So my new velo has full mudguards front and back with small mudflaps on the front -- they might not survive long. I shall also be interested to see how the mudguards themselves survive on a long touring trip. I shall have to wait until mid May to find out on my trip down the Rhein to Rotterdam.
Trevor A Panther In South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
"Pinky" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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So my new velo has full mudguards front and back with small mudflaps on the front -- they might not survive long. I shall also be interested to see how the mudguards themselves survive on a long touring trip. I shall have to wait until mid May to find out on my trip down the Rhein to Rotterdam.
Full mudguards front & rear on Gino and also on Mr N Frosty (Norbert to his friends). Nathan is using Nortbert this very day as the lanes are full of crud and being a lazy tyke, he did not clean his own tourer last time he used it and resultant crud has become concrete on rear cogs... to wit his cry this morning was "Mum, I can't change gear."
Of course, it could have been a cunning plan on the part of said offspring to be out on Norbert once more.
