Wide tires through up a lot of mjud and debris. The bigger the knobbies, the greater the volume flung. Fender coverage, to be effective at protecting the drivetrain, has to be near 100%, as even 10-20% of the spray getting through to the drive train will still rapidly coat it (and your legs). I have yet to find a fender system that provides that level of coverage, mounts hearty and silent and safe and doesn’t need fiddling. So my goal is to prevent mud from splatting my glasses. One blot in 10,000 gets through now (a made up stat, obviously. Grin.).
My experience with wood fenders (flat and semi-shortish) was they blocked 80% of the mud spray on a muddy dirt road descent (5 miles). Yes, it was great not having the direct spray and splatter, but 20% mud spray on the bike rapidly reached the full amount of mud capacity the bike could take, so the effect was the same as the much smaller mud flap front I use now, it just took a quarter mile longer to get there. I use SKS’s Mud-X front fender and my saddle bag as short fenders. No noise, fiddling, or risk of them coming off in a ride due to debris or other oddities common with singletrack and dirt road riding. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000X5ZK6Q/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Photos of these throughout my blog, and looking for a specific post to link to, I was struck how they’re present in every photo but unobtrusive and not seen much. In this post, the front is only obvious in the Quickbeam leaning on the tree photo. https://thegrid.ai/withabandon/merry-christmastide-and-happy-hogmanay. With abandon, Patrick -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
