Right there's several issues with this post. The overriding one being that it doesn't follow any form of logic in the slightest or make sense AT ALL.
jiggerypokery said:
Bonj you utter fruit loop! My arse was wet, it never gets wet when I use mudguards ergo they keep the spray off my arse ergo it stays dry ergo....mudguards have a practical use.
this is basically just STATING your case. You'd had a go at proving it, and you'd got
reasonably far, but with this it seems you've given up and gone back to square 1, just repeating it again.
jiggerypokery said:
Why would the backs of my legs get skanky, the spray and road crud from the front wheel goes backwards from the wheel hitting my shins...how the hell does it wrap around and get over my calves?
Well, by the same token, how does it hit anything other than the down tube if it actually is sprayed up from the tyres? by virtue of it sticking to them for a small period of time before detaching and flying off at a tangent causing it to be projected into a parabolic arc the plane of which being parallel to the vector of motion of the bike?
jiggerypokery said:
And as for the mud...oh get over it, I was riding on the A45 Coventry road, a dual carriage way, where the hell am I going to find mud in the middle of Birmingham????
This completely blows your whole argument out of the water by contradicting yourself.
You claim your shins were muddy, yet you are now suggesting there ISN'T any mud in central birmingham? So if that IS mud on your shins in the photo (which it doesn't really look like to me - doesn't look like anything), where did it come from?
I put it to you that you took the mudguards off hoping to get muddy, but then when you didn't, on arriving home you got some soil out of your garden and smeared it on to your legs, but then to make it look authentic washed it off with the hosepipe. But you washed it off a bit too much and got your socks wetter than they would normally be. Hence the only very very slight amount of dirt, excessive sock wetness, and leg dampness profile that suggests a wetting by a running stream of water rather than dripping water. Yep, I think that's a pretty accurate estimation of today's events!
jiggerypokery said:
But...sans mudguards on the crosser in Sutton park in the mud no less I get a muddy back...what does that infer Sherlock?
That you should have mudguards on your crosser but not on your road bike?