Originally Posted by
sd5782
Interesting comments. Slow to change I guess, as it wasn’t too common to see fenders on this style bike in my youth, but perhaps that’s because it’s the Midwest where bikes were mostly recreational rather than transport.
I loooove bicycle kick stands on my bikes. Nowadays nothing screams cheap bike like one of those. Heck I got chastised here on this very forum because I said I put them turkey wing brake levers on my touring bikes. Fenders? A friend used to make fun of my full fenders until we got caught in a rainstorm and his bike put a dirt racing stripe on his back.
Racing bikes, in particular criterium bikes, defined what a road bike was supposed to be.