I live in rainy Portland, OR, and I ride with fenders (aluminum VO snakeskin) year round. I'm retired now, and I can choose when to ride, but my use of fenders began when I commuted daily to work no matter what the weather was doing. I feel like my bike looks fully dressed with fenders, and it is just too much work to take them off and on seasonally. I used to run SKS plastic fenders, but to my eye, aluminum fenders look better with my Sam Hillborne. And in my experience, they are quieter, too. At the end of winter there is always a layer of decomposed leaves and grime that has accumulated on the underside of the fenders, which amounts to a surprising amount once it is cleaned off and sits in a pile on the floor... Gunk that otherwise would have been sprayed on my bike and me!
On Friday, August 23, 2024 at 8:53:45 PM UTC-7 Stephen Durfee wrote: > 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? > > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/4ab88127-20e3-46f0-8e08-e0bd028c97f4n%40googlegroups.com.
