Re: [CR]Bluemels fenders questions

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Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 19:15:53 -0500
To: "swampmtn" <swampmtn@siscom.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "Sheldon Brown" <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Bluemels fenders questions


Aldo Ross wrote:
>Has anyone else noticed... once you've used mud guards awhile and
>gotten used to seeing them, a bike without mud guards looks so bare
>and incomplete?

I doubt it's still true, but back in the old days, in Britain, riding without fenders, except for actual racing, marked you as a racerboy-lookalike-wannabe and exposed you to scornful smirks from Real Cyclists.

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