Get them mudguards on!!

swagman
swagman Posts: 115
edited October 2008 in The bottom bracket
Why dont you be uncool and ride with full mudguards all year round?

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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    swagman wrote:
    Why dont you be uncool and ride with full mudguards all year round?

    My nice bike won't take them, and I'm not doing a botch job.
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Took my crud guard off over the weekend to fit a beam rack and got a wet asre cause I didn't put it back on. Unless you can guarantee a dry summer it stays on all year.
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • HungryCol
    HungryCol Posts: 532
    I suggested once in a rainy club league race once that it would help if we had some clip on mudguards i.e. it would be a lot more plesant drafting. You'd swear I suggested we all pray to satan.
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  • Smokin Joe
    Smokin Joe Posts: 2,706
    HungryCol wrote:
    I suggested once in a rainy club league race once that it would help if we had some clip on mudguards i.e. it would be a lot more plesant drafting. You'd swear I suggested we all pray to satan.
    I'm amazed you weren't dragged from your bike and beaten to a bloody pulp. Perhaps they couldn't believe what they had heard.
  • robbarker
    robbarker Posts: 1,367
    In all seriousness, mudguards can be dangerous in crashes.

    I do keep them on my audax bike all year round though.
  • y tin
    y tin Posts: 102
    Smokin Joe wrote:
    HungryCol wrote:
    I suggested once in a rainy club league race once that it would help if we had some clip on mudguards i.e. it would be a lot more plesant drafting. You'd swear I suggested we all pray to satan.
    I'm amazed you weren't dragged from your bike and beaten to a bloody pulp. Perhaps they couldn't believe what they had heard.

    Aye, living dangerously there. At the very least you should've been told to get to the front of the bunch then and stop bl**dy wheel sucking! :wink:
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  • bobpzero
    bobpzero Posts: 1,431
    You'd swear I suggested we all pray to satan.
    maybe subconsciously they already had?
    tho random thought are there any true Christians on this forum? seriously are there?
    anyways i have no problems with having mudguards on my bike tho my bike is a semi recumbent. when i had a roadie bike i was so desperate to get the mudguards off because u really notice the wind resistance.
  • BigDunk
    BigDunk Posts: 39
    My club won't let you go on a club run without full muddy's in't winter.No one wants a stripe of road juice soaking you do they?,or do they :wink:
    If your out the back,can anyone hear you scream?
  • wastelander
    wastelander Posts: 557
    bobpzero wrote:
    when i had a roadie bike i was so desperate to get the mudguards off because u really notice the wind resistance.

    Hell, I wish I was good enough to notice the wind resistance!!!!
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    swagman wrote:
    Why dont you be uncool and ride with full mudguards all year round?

    Because I hope at some point it will eventually stop raining :lol:
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  • meagain
    meagain Posts: 2,331
    At least one of the fleet has 'grds all year - seem to have been at least 2 wet days a week for last 9 months!
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    redddraggon wrote:
    swagman wrote:
    Why dont you be uncool and ride with full mudguards all year round?

    My nice bike won't take them, and I'm not doing a botch job.

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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Clever Pun wrote:
    redddraggon wrote:
    swagman wrote:
    Why dont you be uncool and ride with full mudguards all year round?

    My nice bike won't take them, and I'm not doing a botch job.

    race blades?

    Nah I've got a decently equipped bike with proper guards that I can use if I need to. No messing about with race blades for me :wink:
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  • meagain
    meagain Posts: 2,331
    Race Blades are neither a mickling nor a muckling, really!
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  • idaviesmoore
    idaviesmoore Posts: 557
    BigDunk wrote:
    My club won't let you go on a club run without full muddy's in't winter.No one wants a stripe of road juice soaking you do they?,or do they :wink:

    That's why I won't ride with a club, I don't want my bike to look like my grandad's old BSA :wink:

    P.S If you're slow enough to be behind me then you deserve a facefull of road juice :D
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  • Brixtonbiker
    Brixtonbiker Posts: 100
    I have race blades, I Love em,

    I Don't like guards on my bike, so only use the blades if i have to.

    Clip on and off in seconds and work very well.

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