Originally Posted by
Crossthreaded88
What does the youth of today have against chain guards? Maybe no one wears long pants anymore and haven't had their pant leg stuck between their chain and sprocket and maybe crashed hard? Even if you don't crash you have that nice grease tattoo forever on your pants. Maybe it's skinny jeans that make the need for chain guards obsolete even though I don't personally own such a thing. I guess you know you're getting old when you start saying things your parents said when you were a kid.
First thing I have always done to my my bikes is remove the chain guard, fenders and reflector. I can't stand the unnecessary dead weight, the rattles, the debris that gets caught, the added hassle of stuff in your way during maintenance and repair. I like raw stripped down bikes. Minimalist to the max. Been doing that for 50+ years and I don't wear skinny jeans.