Patrick - are you speaking about keeping your backside dry traversing deep puddles and gutters AFTER the downpour or during? I say during a downpour, your backside is getting wet from above enough such that any tire spray from below is negligible in terms of wetness, though it may be more foul from below, but yes, after a downpour, fenders will work wonders in any depth of water to keep spray off of the feet and the back.
I'll post up some Space Horse Disc thoughts over on iBob in the near future - waiting for the new bike glow to wear down a bit to avoid an overly-gushing review. Regarding Thunder Burts - I can't compare the knobbies to Furious Freds, but vs. my BG Rock n' Roads, the knobbies are downright diminutive. I'd not sweat Thunder Burts under fenders remotely as much as I did the Rock n' Roads. On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Patrick Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > Deacon and Jeff: thanks for the knobbies + fenders perspective. Reason for > asking, one day I may swap the hardly-knobs F Freds for something more > knobby, particularly as the Thunderburts are said to outroll even the F > Freds. > > Question, Patrick: the Thunderburt knobs are hardly bigger than those on > the F Freds. Still: are the knobs too big for comfort and fenders together? > I suppose that by the time you are at the Racing Ralph or R&R size-knob, > you are clearly at more risk. > > Jeff: I have to say that, from my experience with downpours that, in well > under an hour, dump enough rain to flood my access road a good 6" above the > 12" high bb of the Diamond Back mtb fixie I was riding, fenders still help > to keep my saddle and backside dry. We get a citywide average of 8-9"/year, > ranging from 14" or so at the Sandia foothills to 5" or so in some parts of > the west mesa. Real gutters and drains are rare; most streets are > themselves gutters, feeding runoff to a system of engineered arroyos; so > that you often find yourself riding through a temporary river as runoff is > shunted toward the curbs where cyclists ride. > > And, please post ride experience and photos of the new Space Horse. I am > very, very chuffed at the so-large and ever growing "road bike for dirt" > segment, and from the All City site, this seems to be a particularly > elegant example, with a particularly elegant fork. (Me, I need fatter tires > than 42s for our sandy conditions, whence the TCO compromise with the > Matthews for 60s + fenders capability.) > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
