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.
Sheldon "Fair-Weather Riders Don't Need Fenders" Brown
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