Jobst wrote about fenders as a liability on hiking trails that he rides ( here <https://yarchive.net/bike/fender.html>). Like Jobst, I only ride one bike and will be removing my metal fenders for the same reasons he chose to never use them. Fenders on trails has given me too much grief, even though I have proper clearance and use slick tires. There are a few hybrid fender ideas that mitigate liability, but minimize road grime on me/the drivetrain that I may try if I deem necessary. For folks who keep multiple bikes or don't ride trails, fenders make a lot of sense and I am sure I will miss them from time to time.
Mat On Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 6:54:31 PM UTC-5, ascpgh wrote: > > Jobst must've made the kind of money to permit buying a range of bags in > order to provide such criticism. > > My Nelson Longflap was on my Rambouillet for a ride across the country and > has been on the back of my daily commuter for eleven years straight since. > I have had the occasion to end up with some thing to take home that was > best accounted for by the deployed long flap and its second straps. When > used on my light touring trips it gives me a quick place to secure things > without having to empty the bag and repack to accommodate. > > I can only project that if Brandt had no appreciation of the contingent > good the long flap of the Longflap offers that he would be similarly > unappreciative of the significant good that properly fit fenders provide > when things become wet, muddy, or somewhere in between. > > Andy Cheatham > Pittsburgh > > On Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 6:26:29 PM UTC-4, Mark Anderson wrote: >> >> On Friday, September 14, 2018 at 1:11:00 PM UTC-5, Ginz wrote: >>> >>> I recall an interview by Grant Petersen where Brandt agued against the >>> value of the longer flap on the Carradice longflap bags. Now *that’s* an >>> opinion. >> >> >> IIRC, he argued that if you want a bigger bag, you should get a bigger >> bag, not a bigger lid. Makes sense to me. >> >> -- >> Mark Anderson >> >> > -- 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.
