Tully, I struggled with this for years and finally gave up fenders because I benifit more from having nobbies than I do from staying dry from the road/trail. Put another way, I want to ride my bikes on whatever I ride and that is on average 1/3 each paved, dirt road/mup, singletrack trail and around here that means nobbies. Here are the conclusions I came to for myself:
— slicks (like Compass non-nobbies) as well as small nobbies like Thunder Burt work great with fenders no matter the terrain, but singletrack may require they have greater clearence. — Singletrack is hard on fenders and their bits. They will make noise and need frequent adjustment, making them, for me, fiddly. — If going without fenders, drivetrain will suffer some, but not as much as I thought it might; gaters are brilliant to wear, and a small MTB SKS front mud guard blocks slop from hitting my eyes at speed. Usually. Grin. 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-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
