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| Winter bikes should have mudguards |
| Yes, I care for my fellow cyclists |
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| No, waste of time. Just something else to go wrong |
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ChrisB
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| David Mclean wrote: |
You're probably right, a dirty/wet drivetrain isn't such a big problem compared to dirty/wet feet and  though. howabout a skirt guard? 
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You'd never get that past the UCI, Dave. |
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highlandpro
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special guest star
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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It is possible to avoid getting dirty and wet by using mudguards.
For riding alone they need to be full mudguards with a flap for the front guard, which means having a bike with mudguard clearances. None of this race blade or crud roadracer nonsense, might as well not bother.
For riding in a group everyone in the entire group needs full mudguards and long mudflaps, front a rear, something that rarely happens. Of the people I train with this only happens once per week max in the winter.
Otherwise I don't think there is any point in hag them. |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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not on the track
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Albert Dock
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| Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 11:33 pm Post subject: Re: Mudguards - yes or no? |
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| Hans Datdodishes wrote: |
This votes going to be too close to call...
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POLL RESULTS...
Winter bikes should have mudguards
Yes, I care for my fellow cyclists
89% [ 51 ]
No, waste of time. Just something else to go wrong
10% [ 6 ]
Total Votes : 57
Yer very close call, finger on the pulse as usual  , no mudguards are ok for sportivers and solo cyclists, but for club runs are a winter essential..
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Hans Datdodishes
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| Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 8:42 am Post subject: Re: Mudguards - yes or no? |
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| Albert Dock wrote: |
| Hans Datdodishes wrote: |
This votes going to be too close to call...
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POLL RESULTS...
Winter bikes should have mudguards
Yes, I care for my fellow cyclists
89% [ 51 ]
No, waste of time. Just something else to go wrong
10% [ 6 ]
Total Votes : 57
Yer very close call, finger on the pulse as usual , no mudguards are ok for sportivers and solo cyclists, but for club runs are a winter essential.. |
At the time I posted that, it was one vote for No (me) and about 20 for Yes. Its called irony. Not very sharp, are you?
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Straff
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| Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:34 am Post subject: |
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When I was alive turning up at a club-run sans mudguards made you distinctly persona non grata. These days I use them simply to protect blardy expensive Assos bibtights.
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DenHaag
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| Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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Cyclists with full mudguards and long mud-flaps on the back are my sort of people.  |
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Albert Dock
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| Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:43 pm Post subject: Re: Mudguards - yes or no? |
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| Hans Datdodishes wrote: |
| Albert Dock wrote: |
| Hans Datdodishes wrote: |
This votes going to be too close to call...
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POLL RESULTS...
Winter bikes should have mudguards
Yes, I care for my fellow cyclists
89% [ 51 ]
No, waste of time. Just something else to go wrong
10% [ 6 ]
Total Votes : 57
Yer very close call, finger on the pulse as usual , no mudguards are ok for sportivers and solo cyclists, but for club runs are a winter essential.. |
At the time I posted that, it was one vote for No (me) and about 20 for Yes. Its called irony. Not very sharp, are you? |
I was only commenting on the fact that 90% of respondents to the poll were in favour of using mudguards. As you have have never been ironic or humerous in any of your previous posts that I have read, perhaps you could prefix any further musings with an I for irony or H for humour, so us dullards could be left in no doubt as to your nature of your postings ?? Thank you
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dave kennedy
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 12:20 am Post subject: |
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| perhaps you could prefix any further musings with an I for irony or H for humour, so us dullards could be left in no doubt as to your nature of your postings |
or even TC (for Total Crap), but, then again, that is the default setting  |
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Hans Datdodishes
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:22 am Post subject: |
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| dave kennedy wrote: |
Albert Dock wrote:
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| perhaps you could prefix any further musings with an I for irony or H for humour, so us dullards could be left in no doubt as to your nature of your postings |
or even TC (for Total Crap), but, then again, that is the default setting |
<hic>
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Albert Dock
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Hans Datdodishes wrote: |
| dave kennedy wrote: |
Albert Dock wrote:
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| perhaps you could prefix any further musings with an I for irony or H for humour, so us dullards could be left in no doubt as to your nature of your postings |
or even TC (for Total Crap), but, then again, that is the default setting |
<hic> |
Thanks for the preface <hic>, humour, irony and crap, but no post???
sort it out fairy liquid..
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fatboy slim
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| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 3:39 pm Post subject: ! |
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if you havent got a mudguard with a descent flap are club motto is ....F@*%k off.... simples.
the way it should be |
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highlandpro
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Hans Datdodishes
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Is a descent flap like a parachute?
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Jim Golden
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| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 4:39 pm Post subject: Mudguards rule |
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| Surprised there is any argument mudguards with flaps are a must. I am with SMB and Den Haag. SMB was even bullied into a new mudflap the other week. Some clubs are old fashioned enough to insist on mudguards all through winter. |
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Wozza
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| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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Aaaaah, the return of the mudflap debate circa '05. 
Can't we talk about helmets or summat   
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| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 8:50 pm Post subject: Re: ! |
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| fatboy slim wrote: |
if you havent got a mudguard with a descent flap are club motto is ....F@*%k off.... simples.
the way it should be |
Yer.
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kingkongsfinger
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Im sure someone makes a very long set of mudguards nowadays, front and rear guards almost touch the floor with their mudflaps, are they called long boats or somert?
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