*This is a spinoff from my post about Tire/Wheel strategy across my two bikes. I think I've figured that out re: winter trail riding, I'll respond there when I've wrapped that up.*
I have two wheel sets on my Roadini, an all-road one with 43mm GKSS for solo rides, where I'm mainly road and good dose of rail trail or gravel cuts to connect quiet roads. I also have a narrower wheels with 30mm tires for fast(er) road rides with a friend. I have Tektro R369 long-reach brakes. I live an hour outside Toronto, and have ridden in this area for 20+ years and I've never had fenders. If I come home wet/dirty from a ride, I clean the bike. I'm a neat freak and my bikes all look new! I ride about 4x a week between Apr-Nov and I'm not looking for fenders for those 3 seasons. I'm looking specifically for winter, when I can't ride my local mixed-surface trails (these are not MTB trails) on my Salsa Fargo. These would be the conditions for which I'm looking for fenders: - For road riding - In the winter - When there is NO snow/ice on the roads - Usually on the (many) days when the roads have been ploughed after snowfall, when the roads are often wet, and may have some residual salt, or bone-dry, but with some salt/sand residue. From around mid-Dec to mid-Mar this would account for maybe 15-20 days. Given how little I would use the fenders, I'm thinking removable ones, with the GKSS 43mm tires, just to provide some, even if minimal, coverage when the roads are wet, so the bike is only half as messy. I would clean the bike within a couple hours of riding, assuming it needs it. I have removable fenders on the Fargo and they've been great in the winter, but I'll be setting that bike up for trail-only (*other post*). Sometime in April those come off and don't go back on until the following winter. Objective is to expand the days I can outside, in the winter. -- 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 view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/d22e9ddc-1b16-42da-a9fb-1fbf5fd97ce5n%40googlegroups.com.
