Noise and clogging from rocks, duff, and sticks. Plus, I don't mind getting wet or dirty.
With abandon, Patrick On Wednesday, December 3, 2014 5:27:27 PM UTC-7, Patrick Moore wrote: > > Why have you abandoned fenders and knobbies? Clearance problem, or > something else? > > Fenders really do keep the bike (the rider too, of course) cleaner. I > remember a regular ride I used to do that involved a section of pavement > off of which many dirt driveways led. On a wet day the road wasn't merely > wet, it was covered in a third of an inch of thin, muddy gruel. Decent > fenders (at the time mine were Zefals, IIRC) and a long and wide flap kept > even the chainstays clean. The erstwhile Diamondback mountain bike went > through a development stage where it wore 60 mm SKS fenders over 60 mm Big > Apples, and rides through local dirt road mud were suprisingly sanitary - > even if the traction was not optimum. > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Deacon Patrick <lamon...@mac.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I've given up on fenders with knobbies, but they are brilliant with road >> tires! >> >> With abandon, >> Patrick >> >> -- >> 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 rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten > > ************************************* > *[I]n exploring the physical universe man has made no attempt to explore > himself. Much of what goes by the name of pleasure is simply an effort to > destroy consciousness. If one started by asking, what is man? what are his > needs? how can he best express himself? one would discover that merely > having the power to avoid work and live one’s life from birth to death in > electric light and to the tune of tinned music is not a reason for doing > so.”* > * > -- George Orwell, Pleasure Spots* > > *Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, > I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have > the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and > though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not > money, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and > though I give my body to be burned, and have not money, it profiteth me > nothing. Money suffereth long, and it is kind; money envieth not; money > vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh > not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in > iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, hopeth all > things, endureth all things. . . . And now abideth faith, hope, money, > these three; but the greatest of these is money. * > * > -- George Orwell, Keep The Apidistra Flying* > -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
