Originally Posted by
TurbineBlade
Sure - I meant that I don't change my bicycle between seasons. I change my clothing quite a bit!
3-4 mph faster by building a huge blue thing and mounting it on my bike somehow? Can't say I've thought about it
. Actually, I took my fenders with the extra long mud flaps off -- I don't mind the rain and wetness that much, and I've ridden in tropical storms on 2 occasions. Fenders for me are just one more thing to bang around on the vertical bike rack and rub, vibrate, etc. They're annoying, and cause me to have to adjust things -- which sucks. I'm too lazy for that anymore.
Quite a bit more than the blue thing; that's just the beginning. I am hoping get more than the 3-4 mph if I build it right.
It's not rain that bothers me. In the summer I don't even bother with fenders, rain gear and so on. I just ride through the storm. It's the cold
and rain - mostly the cold - that stops most people. I don't know about you, but around here morning cycling traffic dwindled down to one or two people every few days when it got below freezing and even those diehards appeared to be pretty miserable. I'm not trying to break records for extreme cycling - all I can say is it works and far better than fenders and cold-weather clothing.