Don't all clammer at once with sheer wonderment at how amazing this idea is or get overly flustered in wondering why no-one thought of it before, but with respect to the question of what mudguards to have, has anyone considered ...
no mudguards? Let's face it - you don't really
need them, do you?
People only have them for a fashion statement thinking they're saying 'look at me i'm hard, I cycle in the rain!', but don't realise that what you're effectively saying is 'look at me, I cycle
slowly in the rain'. Because I've cycled in wet weather and have never once got rain up my back - I can only assume it's because I go faster than your average pootler.
I think they look as good as mudguards can-
Is that ^^^ your bike??!! Interesting choice of colour, brown. Don't see many brown bikes around. I would have to agree that they do look 'as good as mudguards can'. If I was to change anything, I'd have the front one going further round the front of the front wheel, e.g. to the 10 o'clock position or even 9 o'clock, rather than stopping at 12. Stopping at the top
kind of reminds me of a receeding hairline, in the same way that a stem with only two bolts on the handlebar face clamp reminds me of a cyclops.
But just a few questions if I may, out of curiosity:
what's that contraption attached to the seat tube? (a weapon to use against idiot drivers?)
what's the red thing under the saddle bag? (the firing device?)
And have you ever considered, wait for it - shock horror:
clipless pedals? If not, I've got a pair of plastic ones you can have for free if you want, it'll save you some weight. No point having metal flatties on a road bike.
Also have you considered taking the spoke reflectors off (although to be fair clear ones aren't
quite as much of a travesty as orange ones).
But nice bike on the whole by the way.
