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!