Originally Posted by
IPassGas
Many pictures of touring bikes without fenders, aaargh! I guess some people don't see much rain.
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But I still would always have fenders on tour!
Agree that they are desired for touring, but unfortunately when I pack up my S&S coupled bike there is no room for fenders in the case. So, sometimes the bike looks like this:
I have experimented with some smaller ones that I can add easily, so hopefully the next tour will have a cleaner bike on the next rainy day.