Rain/Wet Rig Hot or Not
01-27-15, 11:24 AM
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The stays are designed to snap when something gets caught up by the wheel. I have caught a full on branch on my wheels, and the stays snapped immediately, followed by the rest of the fender. Nothing else was harmed. I cannot see how the structure would accordion into the fork, it simply isn't strong enough to stay in place that long before it tears away as it is designed to. As far as stuff being momentarily being stuck on the tire, they are peeled off by inside surface of the fender, so you hear a "ziiiiip!' sound as the rock or debris is forced off the tire and dragged along the inside of the fender. Anything bigger than that just isn't going to stick long enough unless you are riding through fresh tar.
Your limits would make it impossible to ride a tire of any size on my Scott CR1 at all, much less with any fenders.
Your limits would make it impossible to ride a tire of any size on my Scott CR1 at all, much less with any fenders.
And FWIW, they're not "my" limits, they're limits arrived at through decades of experience and countless thousands of cyclists. I'm just repeating their findings here.
