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Contradictory or not?

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  1. gembo
    Member

    I came up to Lothian road from grass market this pm. Chap at lights had some nifty goretex shorts on leggings and overshoes. However, he was running slick tyres and no mudguard. So he was quite wet at the rear. Now some say, he is waterproof so being wet is no problem, but I say why not get a mudguard? He knew the sequence and went far out into Lothian road whilst light still red, personally I wait for amber. At the next junction he jumped at amber and was almost taken out by a van going through red the other way. All in a lot of rain. Personally, I like to take it easy in wet conditions, my brakes being less responsive.

    These are just my prejudices but looked like he had spent a bit on the shorts and would be a shame for them to get wasted.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  2. Uberuce
    Member

    I am one of the you're-not-made-from-sugar-just-get-wet camp, but I still use full mudguards to save my clothes from greasy road muck. To quote Spike in Season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: from beneath you, it devours.

    I am of the opinion that the probabilistic certainty of some drivers having passed their test without ever having seen suboptimal conditions needs shutting down asap.

    In the meantime, I take it easy to account for them, disc/hub/fixed braking systems be damned.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  3. gembo
    Member

    That is how I roll too, the getting wet I mean but definitely liked the look of the goretex shorts

    Posted 10 years ago #

  4. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Prevention or cure?

    I got wet today, but it was just water from the sky and not road crud.

    There's enough dog t*** on the paths of Edinburgh to make guards a good health and safety requirement on a drizzly day.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  5. gembo
    Member

    Two in a row of good kapturik points (rucksacks on drop handled bikes not good for seeing helmet lights and mudguards good for guarding against mud). Important to get the essentials established early.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  6. Uberuce
    Member

    ARobComp of this parish recently demonstrated the need for mudguards on CX training rides.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  7. gembo
    Member

    I saw some of those impressive shots, but think he may have gotten a little muddy even without fenders. In his defence, you mentioned he was on specialized tricross, which is bike I use with mudguards but I could not cycle it in mud. No way.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  8. DaveC
    Member

    I have some Endura w/proof shorts. They are ok, in the wet in summer but I tend to sweat in them. I also have lighter w/proof Goretex (TM) trousers I wear more though.

    As for guards, I have them on all my bikes 365 days a year.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  9. Uberuce
    Member

    Gembo, no, I refer to an EdinbURGH incident before the weekend where he got liberally sprayed with doshgit in a local park while training for the weekend.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  10. Instography
    Member

    Saw two people this evening, both with fairly low-slung trousers and short jackets getting their back and crack sprayed with road crud along Melville Street, all for the want of mudguards. Only one was on a short-barred fixie. I can appreciate that mudguards may not be cool but neither is the muffin-top builder's look, especially not when soaking wet and filthy.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  11. gembo
    Member

    Ah, Arobcomp not having much luck with the muckment

    Posted 10 years ago #

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