I always find it amazing especially during the winter months that road........

Cyclists don`t use full length mudguards, I can only think they must enjoy cleaning their bikes and themselves a lot! I have full length SKS mudguards on all year round and would be lost without them.

I only take these mudguards off when in the past I`ve been on a Rough Stuff event, Rough Stuff is what cyclists these days call Off Road. Also back in the days gone by on club ride if you had no mudguards or even a rear mud flap and the roads were wet and mucky you had to ride at the back of a group.

 Normal size rear mud flaps have been around for years like the one above which I use today on all my bikes. But on club rides back in the day a lot of us made our own extra long mud flaps out of old large detergents bottles like the one below.

But these days you can now buy extra long mud flaps from a number of companies like this one from a London company called RAW at  http://rawmudflap.uk/about/

So with full length mudguards and mud flaps and even extra long mud flaps  there`s really no excuse these days for winter club riders getting themselves or their club mates covered in muck from the roads!    

I can remember as a 13 year old getting a.........

Raleigh bike for Christmas (second-hand of course) money was tight in those days! Sometime later I got one of those Lucas mileage meters with its annoying click-click-click everytime the front wheel went round. It didn`t stay on the bike very long!

Then when I started cycling again in 1979 and got into touring in 1980 I got one these.

Then of course when Cyclomputes came in I went for the Cateeye ones, and still used them today, the Echo-7 and the Beta-2.

 Don`t think I will ever change to all those new thingymajig that nearly all cyclists seem to have nowadays.
I`ve always kept a record of my day ride mileage but sadly these have now been lost, and it was only in 2006 that I started save my yearly mileage again.  So when I came across this club I thought if only I had kept a record of all my rides!
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I don`t know any of the current cyclist on the list but I do remember Doug Brunwin on the `Roll of Honour` list. Rode with Doug in the early 90`s when I rode with the Forty plus CC.