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CCstal says >"People forget that bike riders, once its past a certain amount of distance will sweat + are exposed to the elements."> Driving home yesterday in
by giardini 6y ago
CCstal says >"People forget that bike riders, once its past a certain amount of distance will sweat + are exposed to the elements.">
Driving home yesterday in a light rain I saw a gentleman in a bright yellow soccer shirt riding a bicycle slowly on the sidewalk. A wide stripe of dark brown mud ran up his back and onto his helmet! As I drove past I just had to laugh and wonder what the front wheel was doing to him!
No one owned a bicycle without fenders when I was young; today finding a bike with fenders is difficult. And some of today's aftermarket fenders are ridiculously flimsy.
I do not understand the absence of fenders on today's bicycles.
- agumonkey 6y agomarket dynamics .. people want bikes for leisure not long distance trip fully clothed
- giardini 6y agoI think it is simply an uneducated market. When I was a kid I went everywhere: short trips and long. But I _always_ needed fenders b/c I was always running through water somewhere. On a modern bicycle unless you're racing (and even then sometimes), fenders are a necessity, not an option. For example, how many motorcycles don't have fenders? Cars?