[giardini]

CCstal says >"People forget that bike riders, once its past a certain amount of distance will sweat + are exposed to the elements.">

Driving home yesterday in a light rain I saw a gentleman in a bright yellow soccer shirt riding a bicycle slowly on the sidewalk. A wide stripe of dark brown mud ran up his back and onto his helmet! As I drove past I just had to laugh and wonder what the front wheel was doing to him!

No one owned a bicycle without fenders when I was young; today finding a bike with fenders is difficult. And some of today's aftermarket fenders are ridiculously flimsy.

I do not understand the absence of fenders on today's bicycles.

[agumonkey]

market dynamics .. people want bikes for leisure not long distance trip fully clothed

[giardini]

I think it is simply an uneducated market. When I was a kid I went everywhere: short trips and long. But I _always_ needed fenders b/c I was always running through water somewhere.

On a modern bicycle unless you're racing (and even then sometimes), fenders are a necessity, not an option.

For example, how many motorcycles don't have fenders? Cars?