Originally Posted by
Magnus Thor
The trucks on the road should be your least problem. At least I have found them to be amongst the most courteous drivers on the highway. Having said that, they tend to leave the city here in the afternoon and drive through the evening and night so there won't be heavy truck traffic when you are riding. What you have to watch out for is cars pulling camper trailers, those never seem to realize how wide those campers are.
Once you get around 100 km out of the city in any direction, the traffic dies down to almost nothing so you should have no problems.
The wind is everpresent and always seems to be in your face, strange as that may seem since there is no such thing as a straight road in Iceland...
Is there no room for fenders ?
Magnús Þór (don't know if the icelandic characters show up correctly.)
Ísland
The characters show up just right and I now know not to pronounce your last name "por". I like to ride early in the morning, I start around 6:30 so I can my riding done by early afternoon which looks like it will avoid the truck traffic.
I wanted to put fenders on the bike, but it's very tight with the 35mm Duremes on there. If I went down to 32mm there might be space, but I want a big tire for the off road section. Anyway my saddlebag acts a bit like a fender and I have good rain gear, but I'll see if some SKS raceblades XL will fit
http://urbanvelo.org/sks-raceblade-clip-on-fenders/