Ride on a Rainy Day Equals Good Excercise but . . .

Well it was raining all morning but slowed to a light drizzle,
so I took the chance to go for a ride. It was great to be out again.
Only I took a bike that had no fenders and now I've got a nice mud
stripe up the back of my coat. Too bad the ones with fenders look,
so . . . for my grandparents.

Erness Wild wrote:

Well it was raining all morning but slowed to a light drizzle,
so I took the chance to go for a ride. It was great to be out again.
Only I took a bike that had no fenders and now I've got a nice mud
stripe up the back of my coat. Too bad the ones with fenders look,
so . . . for my grandparents.

Your grandpa was the bee's knees in his day, Sonny; a real cake-
eater. He had all the skirts hankering to spoon with him. He'd have
been a real goof to have his glad rags all besmirched by going without
fenders, see? So get wise, Sonny.

Chalo

On Apr 3, 8:46*pm, Chalo wrote:
Erness Wild wrote:

Well it was raining all morning but slowed to a light drizzle,
so I took the chance to go for a ride. It was great to be out again.
Only I took a bike that had no fenders and now I've got a nice mud
stripe up the back of my coat. Too bad the ones with fenders look,
so . . . for my grandparents.

Your grandpa was the bee's knees in his day, Sonny; a real cake-
eater. *He had all the skirts hankering to spoon with him. *He'd have
been a real goof to have his glad rags all besmirched by going without
fenders, see? *So get wise, Sonny.

Chalo

But I wanna look like Lance! You can't look like Lance with fenders.

-- AJ

Chalo wrote:
Your grandpa was the bee's knees in his day, Sonny; a real cake-
eater. He had all the skirts hankering to spoon with him. He'd have
been a real goof to have his glad rags all besmirched by going without
fenders, see? So get wise, Sonny.

Chalo

So, you like to attach things to your bicycle with knotted inner
tubes, cool. (not)

I don't mind fenders on bicycles, in fact I've got two bikes with
them. Only they haven't changed much over the years. And those stupid
clip on ones, that clip to the seat post, now there's a design award
waiting to happen.

Andre Jute wrote:
But I wanna look like Lance! You can't look like Lance with fenders.

-- AJ

A Utopia is still going to leave you mud up your back and wet feet.
And you recommended that pile of tubes?

On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:18:39 -0400, Erness Wild
wrote:

Well it was raining all morning but slowed to a light drizzle,
so I took the chance to go for a ride. It was great to be out again.
Only I took a bike that had no fenders and now I've got a nice mud
stripe up the back of my coat. Too bad the ones with fenders look,
so . . . for my grandparents.

Eight out of 10 on the troll meter.

On Apr 3, 10:30*pm, Erness Wild wrote:
Andre Jute wrote:
But I wanna look like Lance! You can't look like Lance with fenders.

-- AJ

A Utopia is still going to leave you mud up your back and wet feet.

That's what the mudguards are for. I found a splash on my cords, a
spot of mud about 1/16in across. Intolerable. I'm cutting the leather
for the mudflap this weekend, nice honey-coloured Swedish leather
which, after soaking in neatsfoot oil, will be a perfect match for my
Brooks saddle and leather grips. By now I guess you're curling on the
carpet with nausea and stomach cramps! g Horses for courses, my old
son.

And you recommended that pile of tubes?

Only to those with taste and discrimination who want a bike that will
just be run in when your fashion statement, having gone through
thousands in wornout Dura-Ace parts, has retired to the scrapheap.

Andre Jute
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On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 12:46:32 -0700 (PDT), Chalo
wrote:

Your grandpa was the bee's knees in his day, Sonny; a real cake-
eater. He had all the skirts hankering to spoon with him. He'd have
been a real goof to have his glad rags all besmirched by going without
fenders, see? So get wise, Sonny.

Yeah, but as they said in the April 1909 issue of my club's
newsletter: "It does not pay to flirt with the girls at Rockville
Center, does it Schuber?"

http://www.crca.net/wp/wp-content/up...ril1909064.pdf

On Apr 3, 2:22*pm, Erness Wild wrote:
Chalo wrote:
Your grandpa was the bee's knees in his day, Sonny; a real cake-
eater. *He had all the skirts hankering to spoon with him. *He'd have
been a real goof to have his glad rags all besmirched by going without
fenders, see? *So get wise, Sonny.

Chalo

So, you like to attach things to your bicycle with knotted inner
tubes, cool. (not)

In case I need to carry something big and awkward on my rack (like
another bike, or a folding chair, or whatever I pick up that day) I
keep a dozen or so Velcro One-Wraps stored around my seat tube. The
wide kind, like so:

http://www.itapestore.com/index.asp?...=Custom&ID=115

They work much better than nylon cable ties (which fatigue and break
under dynamic loads) or bungie cords (which make up for their limited
range of length, by having too much elasticity.) If you need extra
length just chain more together.

-pm


I don't mind fenders on bicycles, in fact I've got two bikes with
them. Only they haven't changed much over the years. And those stupid
clip on ones, that clip to the seat post, now there's a design award
waiting to happen.

cT = 0.98

Per Erness Wild:
I don't mind fenders on bicycles, in fact I've got two bikes with
them. Only they haven't changed much over the years. And those stupid
clip on ones, that clip to the seat post, now there's a design award
waiting to happen.

This begs a question that's been in the back of what's left of my
mind: has anybody heard of fenders for a full sus bike that
attach to, say, the v-brake mounts - where they could be held
very close to the tire?

I use the usual - that are about six inches off the front wheel,
so it can move up and down as the sus works; but they really
don't work that well.

Same deal in the back - although to a lesser extent.

On my POS bike (rigid), the fenders ride about an inch off the
tread and they're pretty close to 100% effective unless one hits
a puddle several inches deep pretty fast.... and then they're
still better than the FS' fenders at their best.
--
PeteCresswell