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Tinfoil on your feet to keep the heat in. Also for longer rides when its frosty, hot hands and/or hot feet pads.
Like.mudguards
If you like hospital food, these are a great idea.
For the sake of balance (cf doom monger quoted), fitted mudguards will keep your feet, bike and body cleaner and drier, and reduce the risk of ingesting 'road food'. Cyclescheme: "The constant spray of dirty water from a guardless bike on a wet road is worse than being rained on. " And it's so much more civilised for a rider behind.The only two serious injury accidents, I’ve had on led rides, have been caused by crap getting jammed in hugger mudguards, on winter rides. One was a serious injury, the other one was worse. If I see hugger guards on a bike, on one of my rides now, they take them off, or don’t ride. Stand off guards or ass savers are fine though.
A softshell IME can be warmer in the long run than a hard shell waterproof. Hard shells often don't breathe well and get full of sweat which is warm until you stop for a period (like a cafe stop), thenAny tips on keeping warm and dry during the winter,i have base layers,thermal cycling socks but non are waterproof,i dont really want to stop cycling just yet due to the winter
I take it they mean full mudguards which hug the shape of the wheels.What are hugger guards?
I've scraped a lad off the tarmac who had a nasty off when his tyre picked up a stick, a mere twig, and rammed it neatly into the rear of the fork crown, and caused him to lose control at speed and auger the ground badly. I was pleased, cos no other vehicles were involved so no paperwork.The only two serious injury accidents, I’ve had on led rides, have been caused by crap getting jammed in hugger mudguards, on winter rides. One was a serious injury, the other one was worse. If I see hugger guards on a bike, on one of my rides now, they take them off, or don’t ride. Stand off guards or ass savers are fine though.
You don’t want to exacerbate any issues, by deliberately adding anything in which crap can get jammed though, that’s my point.I've scraped a lad off the tarmac who had a nasty off when his tyre picked up a stick, a mere twig, and rammed it neatly into the rear of the fork crown, and caused him to lose control at speed and auger the ground badly. I was pleased, cos no other vehicles were involved so no paperwork.
Anyway, point being that the rear end of a mudguard is no more dangerous an obstruction to debris than the rear of the fork crown. The only way of preventing it is to use your eyes and watch where you're blummen well riding ....or remove your forks and wheelie everywhere.
Whilst the breakaway tabs are breaking away, the wheel locks, it only has to be for a fraction of a second, for the bike to get pinged in front of a vehicle approaching on the other side of the road, I’ve seen it, it’s not a good look. If you want to try it, be my guest, I wouldn’t recommend it though.Are these 'hugger' guards made from steel plate welded to the frame or something? Anything substantial enough to lock a wheel by being trapped in a 'hugger' mudguard should also be substantial enough to break the mounting (which are often just cable ties or rubber bands) or the guard itself?