Can I take my mudgaurds off my bike yet?

[Steve H]

Not yet. It's still winter!

I plan to take mine off on the first day of Spring, ie a couple of weeks time. Mudguards are really useful, but do make my bike fugly. I look forward to the day I can get a winter bike where the guards can stay on all year long leaving my best bike free for dry weather rides.

 

[Kies]

I took my mtb style guards off the hybrid for a few days - bike was looking pretty

 

[Fnaar]

It's a bit like unsafe sex, riding unprotected. Probably. Well, you could draw a parallel. Well, actually the more I think about it...

 

[screenman]

The guards on my Kinesis Rd bike snapped again so that made the decision for me, and I was the only rider in the chaingang so they weren't doing much good in guarding me.

Extremely bad form not to have mudguards when riding with a chain gang, or any group ride for that matter. Whanabe or sportive racers with no history of our sport.

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

Extremely bad form not to have mudguards when riding with a chain gang, or any group ride for that matter. Whanabe or sportive racers with no history of our sport.

Your sport?
Any chance it can become ours as well? We are willing to pay, you know?

For what is worth, if it's extremely bad form not to have mudguards on, then so it is my team's etiquette.. Damn! And I thought we were a great club!

 

[EltonFrog]

Extremely bad form not to have mudguards when riding with a chain gang, or any group ride for that matter. Whanabe or sportive racers with no history of our sport.

Sportive is a sport? I never knew that.

 

[EltonFrog]

Well, its raining very hard today, so they ain't coming off yet.

 

[mickle]

You need a bike which cannot accept mudguards and you need one which is designed to accept mudguards and wears them permanently. Simples.

 

[postman]

I don't think i can put fenders on my Secteur Elite,Fenders that's the American word.Why have i used it cos every thing now is Americanised innit,from back to front baseball caps,'effing arm and hand movements and those oh soooo silly trousers that hang below the arsene wenger line.Oh and every little scum bag wants to be James Gagney or George Raft.
Gawd 'elp us all.

 

[SquareDaff]

You need a bike which cannot accept mudguards and you need one which is designed to accept mudguards and wears them permanently. Simples.

+1 on this. My road bike doesn't accept guards but my CX does. I'll leave the mudguards on the CX and use that when miserable and the road bike when fine.

Don't take your mudguards off - I made the mistake of doing that in last March's fine spell. It then proceeded to persistantly rain for the next 3 months!!

 

[ColinJ]

It's a bit like unsafe sex, riding unprotected. Probably. Well, you could draw a parallel. Well, actually the more I think about it...

I agree completely ... riding without mudguards is something I very rarely do these days!

 

[Fnaar]

I agree completely ... riding without mudguards is something I very rarely do these days!

Sometimes, instead of going for a ride, people enjoy just playing with the hubs, or fettling the bottom bracket.

 

[ColinJ]

Sometimes, instead of going for a ride, people enjoy just playing with the hubs, or fettling the bottom bracket.

Er, I'm ill and not doing any cycling so I have not been doing any fettling recently ...

 

[yello]

You need a bike which cannot accept mudguards and you need one which is designed to accept mudguards and wears them permanently. Simples.

Darn you mickle!

I was planning to respond that the answer was not to take mudguards off but to buy another bike. You don't need a reason to 'N+1' but a reason never hurts!

 

[Get In The Van]

Mudguards can 'offically' be removed from our club rides the first weekend of April, however they may stay on until May