My 2 cents…35 year old REI Randonee, 4 year old Rivendell Appaloosa, 1 year old Vado SL 4.0 EQ all wear fenders, 24/7/365…keeps me, bags, drivetrain and person following me cleaner…plus I favor the look, always carry stuff (camera, binoculars. Tripod, spotting scope, etc…) am slow and have never been a weight weenie 😉 I do have a Fuji and a Trek that runs fenderless however…
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two of, my bike i keep fenders on all the time.
I took 2 two week trips on my bicycle both times I had fenders and we’re glad I did. It only rained all day once. The other on the gap and c & o it kept my bike a lot cleaner, even though the trail is relatively dry. They don’t slow you down
they don’t get in your way.
Actually, they make your bike look good and we get to hang out and exchange information with the other people that you meet that also have fenders.
Both of the traveling bikes have VO fenders, but my town bike has esage both work equally well and the esage have considerably less toe overlap
That’s another subject that I’ve remedied by
Here in ABQ, NM with a citywide average of 9" of precipitation per year (higher near the mountains, less on the Westside; our "monsoon" rain comes either in 15 minute torrents or -- often -- in 10 minutes "spits" of .01" to .05", like the rain
during the last 2 nights), but I still have permanent full fenders on 2 bikes because I'll occasionally ride during a rain shower or in snow melt, I want well-installed and good looking fenders, and this, for me means metal which I dislike repeatedly installing
and removing. And, for the dirt road bike, fenders do help noticeably in keeping find dust off the upper parts of the bike; not to mention the widely distributed horse shit. Even my former Monocog had shorties permanently installed.
I'm packing my bike for a summer road trip - my son and I are flying to Buffalo, NY and riding the Erie Canal route to Albany, visiting friends and family along the way. As I fit my bike into a cardboard box for travel, I'm wondering whether to add fenders
to the box...
In NorCal, we know that rain pretty much comes in the winter months only, and so most of my bikes don't wear fenders. That said, I do have fenders on my commuter, and appreciate the value they bring...I would have taken them off for the summer, but either
I forgot, or was too lazy...
Which leads to the question - who rides with fenders, and do you leave them on year 'round?
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