Racing roadkill
Guru
Well that says more about you than it does about me.I have never heard such b0ll0cks. Nothing dangerous about correctly fitted mudguards, and I have used them in some pretty rough terrain during my time.
Well that says more about you than it does about me.I have never heard such b0ll0cks. Nothing dangerous about correctly fitted mudguards, and I have used them in some pretty rough terrain during my time.
Exactly, the first bit says it all.I remember seeing a photo in Cycling Weekly of a rider who was in a coma after he had gone over the bars and landed on his head due to an acorn (!) jamming his front wheel/mudguard.
I had a conversation with a bike shop owner who had stopped selling mudguards after his best mate was killed in a similar accident. (Though I'm sure that it wasn't an acorn that time!)
Having said that ... I think mudguards with Secu-clips and fitted with adequate clearance are perfectly safe.
I had a conversation with a bike shop owner who had stopped selling mudguards after his best mate was killed in a similar accident. (Though I'm sure that it wasn't an acorn that time!)
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He has done - he's dead! (Illness rather than accident though.)Things can, and do, equally get caught in the front wheel, or between wheel and forks, and cause mayhem. He oughtta stop selling bikes.