Re: mudguards

Nor mine. I thought the shelf on my rack would do the job, and it does
somewhat but not that well.
However, I found a short plastic mudguard that bolts neatly to the light
bracket at the back of the rack. A reflector fills in the gap between the
two. No more stripe.
At the front the fat aluminium tube adequately fields the crud from the
relatively skinny front tyre.

"Ian Blake" wrote

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A decent rack on the back will also operate as a mudguard. That's my tip
for
the day. Oh, and a crud guard on the front is essential.

Not in my experience.

Although the rack (one of the Blackburn models with a parcel shelf)
had protected me more than nothing there was still a significant
problem. The next day I went to my local bike shop and bought
mudguards. Stripe problem solved.

I note that most decent racks (I use SL www.slbike.com) do not have a
parcel shelf so will not protect at all.

The other thing mudguards can do but a rack will not, is protect the
rider behind. I do not always ride solo or last.

I'm amazed at encounters with "mountain" cyclists without mudguards
who not only have mud all over their backs, bikes, crotch areas etc but
also over their faces, fronts, shoulders, from following someone down
a muddy track. They tend to wear goggles or sun glasses in all weather,
which are so smeared up they probably can't see that other cyclists are
covering the same ground staying fairly clean and comfortable thanks to
mud guards.
You have to laugh though as they thunder about trying to look deadly
serious and purposeful, but covered in [censored]!

cheers

Jacob
Mudflaps also utterly essential.

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I'm amazed at encounters with "mountain" cyclists without mudguards
who not only have mud all over their backs, bikes, crotch areas etc but
also over their faces, fronts, shoulders, from following someone down
a muddy track. They tend to wear goggles or sun glasses in all weather,
which are so smeared up they probably can't see that other cyclists are
covering the same ground staying fairly clean and comfortable thanks to
mud guards.

MTB mudguards don't do much to protect the guy following. Ones that do
tend to be close to the tyre and jam up the wheel with sticky mud

--
Tony

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I'm amazed at encounters with "mountain" cyclists without mudguards
who not only have mud all over their backs, bikes, crotch areas etc but
also over their faces, fronts, shoulders, from following someone down
a muddy track. They tend to wear goggles or sun glasses in all weather,
which are so smeared up they probably can't see that other cyclists are
covering the same ground staying fairly clean and comfortable thanks to
mud guards.
You have to laugh though as they thunder about trying to look deadly
serious and purposeful, but covered in [censored]!

Hmm...you're assuming the dirty ones are covering the same ground. On
several of the routes I ride the best start/finish is at a touristy place
that has trails suitable for riding by all the family on basic bikes so
while we may ride *some* of the same ground we're unlikely to ride *all* of
the same ground..
(Mind you, I do use mudguards but they're not as efficient as those fitted
to road bikes for reasons already explained by several other posters).
Hence I'll get back for my post ride cuppa covered in muck while the ones
sticking to the tame trails will at worst have a skunk mark on their back
if they totally lack guards.
--
Pete
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