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I was recently on the Isle of Harris running a half marathon with my pal george who turned 40 and was after the Heb3 t-shirt with the gaelic for 'I did all 5' on the back. Only cost him £1000. Anyway when there I was quite interested to spot a number of heavily pannier'd touring bikes with incredibly skinny tyres and no mudguards. Shome mishtake shurely?
Would I be in error to assume we are all devoted to mudguards on this forum?
"Would I be in error to assume we are all devoted to mudguards on this forum?"
I have them on at least half my bikes.
"Devoted" - no!
Never really understood this no mudguard thing :-?
No mudguards for me. Quite like the minimalist look and skinny tyres combo. Yes, that does mean a muddy oily streak up my back which resembles the Louisiana coastline, but it's not often that rainy and wet I find.
Mudguards for me, I don't think the brown/black stripe up the back is ever a good look and I'd rather not inhale/ingest whatever the front tyre is sprayingup from the road :-o
SKS on the hybrid and road-bike and crudcatchers on the MTB.
Tbh I think a road bike looks quite cool with 'guards, a bit more individual than the bare look, but then my idea of cool may not be the same as everyone else's :-))
Maybe the tourers think their gear will keep the worst of the crud off them.
Definately mudguards for the commute. More comfortable plus I don't like to have to spend time peeling slugs off my face when I get to work.
Yes... mudguards save a whole lot of stuff going into the wrong places!
Bikes do look cool without though.
If you do have a guard the trick is to have the rear guard ending at around 2pm.*
Think this is illegal if you're a CTC member and on a club run. Also must have a working mud flap
I always think bikes w/out mudguards look naked (and not in a good way, but in a shivery, uncomfortable way like they would really like some more clothes on, thank you very much)
Fixies never have guards do they? Idea there is to be naked.
By having rear guard at this angle it discourages people from following too close behind in the wet (!)
My Bromptons all have mudguards, the superlight has titanium stays. I've toyed with taking the mudguards off that one but the word on the street is that they don't stand well when folded if you remove them. They delaminate after a few years and one of the back ones has a broken support.
MTB has them but they are broken so if I get a new back wheel for it I'll probably take them off. I had Dave Yates build it with eyelets for mudguards and a rear Blackburn. I didn't have the Bromptons back then. It doesn't need to pick up the utility miles anymore.
Racing bike doesn't have any and has no way to fit them without using clip on stays.
Trike has a front mudguard. There is no good way to fit rear ones and the wet stuff goes past your shoulders. It only hits you when cornering because you have to shift your weight to the inside of the curve. A friend had mudguards on the back of his and they were always getting broken.
If you do have a guard the trick is to have the rear guard ending at around 2pm.
My mudguards are allowed to stay on my bike until 3pm, but after then I expect them to cook their own dinner and get themselves to bed at a sensible time.
Some bikes are just meant to have mudguards, like Bromptons and Dawes Galaxies. My trike doesn't normally wear mudguards because they wobble around and get caught on things. Aesthetically I prefer my bikes without, but in Scotland that just seems to encourage the weather even more, so it's SKS all round here.
I have mudguards on my bikes but aspire to one without (no - I can't just take them off my existing bikes).
So far, an alarming amount of consensus (one outlyer sp?) and in favour of the correct option for Scottish weather. I must now take a holiday. (Norfolk where I will eat samphire, whatever that is, a sort of weed?).
sea (weed) i believe. enjoy!
Naked bikes? Eek.
Well I'm not sure that mudguards made much difference this morning. Horrendous.
commuting mud guards front and back with an added crud catcher to cover the bottom of the frame and the front cogs etc, works out quite well apart from the shoes still get the odd splash
"Naked bikes?"
Curiously if you put that into Frickr it returns photos of motorbikes (and a few people)
Though if you put 'safe search' on you get bicycles too!
"(The word "Naked" has been filtered from the search because Google SafeSearch is active.)"
"works out quite well apart from the shoes still get the odd splash"
Add an extra mudflap - easily made with duct tape.
After this morning's hellish commute, I may now review my decision to have no mudguards :-(
"Add an extra mudflap"
Yeah have meant to for aaaages, also seen some nifty ones riveted onto the ends made out of coke cans etc
"made out of coke cans etc"
Thing about duct tape (or similar) is that (apart from 'self adhesive') it's flexible so it can be long (and wide) enough to be effective but won't break/bend/grate on kerbs etc.
I've got the crud race guard on the roady but the clearance is so tight and my wheels just out of true means that they rub and make an irritating noise.
NEED guards for the mtb the Nimbus tyres are terrible for spray ( I think i've had this rant before)
"duct tape... won't break/bend/grate on kerbs"
Good point - I have plenty of it too so I shall get to work.
Silence is Golden
But Duct Tape is Silver
"But Duct Tape is Silver"
Other colours are available...
"I have plenty of it too so I shall get to work"
Photos please.
"I have mudguards on my bikes but aspire to one without (no - I can't just take them off my existing bikes). "
Whereas I aspire to living somewhere mudguards aren't needed...
I used to have an irrational dislike of mudguards, thought they looked ugly. But then I got the Kaff, and after a couple of wet commutes figured I'd give them a whirl - they stay on year round now.
I've got raceblades for the fixed so I can whack on guards if needs be - though like many this morning I'm not sure it made much difference. Then again, the front one is fiddly, so I only ever make sure I'm not getting a wet streak up my back.
I can still remember the first time I put mudguards on the bike and used them in anger, cycling back from Queensferry and approaching a flooded section of cycle path. I screwed up my eyes and braced for the usual soaking and... nothing happened.
The rest of the journey was spent berating myself for not fitting guards before.
Horses for courses...
No 'guards on my road bike (although race blades go on for the worst of winter). If it's wet, I get a wet *rse, but it's on my cycling kit, which goes straight in the washing machine when I get home.
Guards on my singlespeed, which was acquired for the purpose of going around town whilst wearing civvies, which I'd rather didn't get a line of damp crud up the back of...
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