Gilles Berthoud Delux Leather Mudguards

Are you suffering from nude fender anxiety? 8 out 10 fender uses are. You are not alone. The bare tips of your fenders cry out: ‘Cloth me, cover me!’ Only a true barbarian would ride fenders sans mud flaps. Mud flaps keep your toes dry, your drivetrain happy and your buddy that's drafting you from cursing your very existence. Some folks advocate for homemade mud flaps. Do not trust these people. No milk jug has ever made a bike look nicer. Don’t desecrate your beautiful bike with a sub par mud flap. It will not forgive you. There are two good mud flaps out there. Side note, I am sitting in the library in Telluride, and there is an old dude typing really aggressively and loudly. He is moaning and breathing weird, wearing bright blue headphones. Sweat pants, obviously. His keyboard will surely break under the strain soon. He sometimes nose laughs. I have headphones on and can still hear him over the music. MMMMM. Uhhhhmm. MM. Thwack tap tap Thwack mmmmm. It’s terrible. He’s on Faceb