# Babby, It's Cold Outside
**URL:** https://tarck.cc/t/babby-its-cold-outside/21011
**Category:** Bikes
**Created:** [October 10, 2015, 4:26am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/babby-its-cold-outside/21011 "2015-10-10T04:26:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Emor\_please](https://tarck.cc/u/Emor_please)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2015, 10:16pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/babby-its-cold-outside/21011/21 "2015-10-10T22:16:47Z")
My four year old plastic fenders are truly on their last legs, they rattle like crazy and both mudflaps fell off long ago. Fortunately, bikes with ample fender clearance make it a lot easier to yolo beat to shit fenders. Have a fresh set in the basement, but have been too lazy to put a new set on but now that’s actually raining I need to do it. I hate arriving to work with wet legs up to my knee.
I think we’re going to have a warm, but wet & windy winter if this fall is any indication (but weather doesn’t work like that, I know).
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### Author:  [@Todd](https://tarck.cc/u/Todd)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2015, 10:25pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/babby-its-cold-outside/21011/22 "2015-10-10T22:25:24Z")
el nino bro, were getting your precipitation dawg.
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### Author:  [@randsome\_beast](https://tarck.cc/u/randsome_beast)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/babby-its-cold-outside/21011/23 "2015-10-10T22:41:00Z")
Before you just go for the most aggressive option, studded tires, try [these](http://www.continental-tires.com/bicycle/tyres/city-trekking-tyres/top-contact-winter2-premium). Studded tires excel in very cold conditions where snow falls in very fine crystals, Alaska, that collapse and harden into something not quite like water ice. Glare ice requires a lot more studs than you want for riding on the roads.
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### Author:  [@jamey1](https://tarck.cc/u/jamey1)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2015, 11:16pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/babby-its-cold-outside/21011/24 "2015-10-10T23:16:54Z")
> [@kmcdon](#):
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> [quote=aerobear]stuff about weather.
I’m gonna be on a fendered MTB this winter as well. Right now I have slicks on it, with the option of putting on the stock knobbies. My commute is only 3 miles if I take the train, with the option to make it 20 if I’m feeling lively.
I think I’m gonna try out the knobbies and see how that goes, and just adjust accordingly.[/quote]
I’ve ridden through 6 winters in denver. I have fenders on a bike of the roads might be wet, but fuck fenders on a bike that will be in snow. I’ve had to walk my bike too many times to snow packing in between the tires and fenders to deal with that again. Like Amy, I pull out the mountain bike if its substantial snow, which is only necessary a few times a winter.
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### Author:  [@Emor\_please](https://tarck.cc/u/Emor_please)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 1:01am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/babby-its-cold-outside/21011/25 "2015-10-11T01:01:00Z")
> [@Todd](#):
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> el nino bro, were getting your precipitation dawg.
Guess you’re right. Warmer than normal, less rain than normal. Another great riding winter!
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### Author:  [@VT\_regularbike](https://tarck.cc/u/VT_regularbike)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/babby-its-cold-outside/21011/26 "2015-10-11T23:38:06Z")
Is every year el nino now?!
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### Author:  [@Rusty\_Piton](https://tarck.cc/u/Rusty_Piton)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/babby-its-cold-outside/21011/27 "2015-10-12T18:50:00Z")
Hey Rando, those tires look neat. Will they work for me if I don’t have an electric bike?
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### Author:  [@randsome\_beast](https://tarck.cc/u/randsome_beast)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/babby-its-cold-outside/21011/28 "2015-10-12T19:34:00Z")
Weird they list them as e-bike tires now. Especially since batteries don’t work well in below freezing temps. They are the shit if your bike can fit them.
High of 87 yesterday and the wind chill is below 40 right now. I’m already pissed off at the amount of ice this type of weather pattern is going to make.
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Squirrel1](https://tarck.cc/u/Andrew_Squirrel1)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2015, 10:33pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/babby-its-cold-outside/21011/29 "2015-10-12T22:33:38Z")
> [@VT regularbike](#):
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> Is every year el nino now?!
Looks like we are still swinging back and forth:
[http://ggweather.com/enso/oni.htm](http://ggweather.com/enso/oni.htm)
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### Author:  [@turpencat](https://tarck.cc/u/turpencat)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 3:20am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/babby-its-cold-outside/21011/30 "2015-10-13T03:20:36Z")
man in 97-98 we had like 2 weeks straight no school
shit was bomb
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### Author:  [@Rusty\_Piton](https://tarck.cc/u/Rusty_Piton)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 1:41pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/babby-its-cold-outside/21011/31 "2015-10-13T13:41:48Z")
Yeah, that was the only time in my life that school was canceled. I only got two days off though cause Mayor D didn’t fuck around with snow removal like fucking Rahm does.
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### Author:  [@Itsmattbb](https://tarck.cc/u/Itsmattbb)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 6:06pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/babby-its-cold-outside/21011/32 "2015-10-14T18:06:53Z")
[quote=jimmythefly]
PYB and our team of experts will tell you why your fender installation sucks.
But yeah, sometimes they are just noisey, but certain things really can help.[/quote]
I had my lbs put them on originally but then tried to adjust it myself a bit to get the fender line a bit closer
Cut and drilled out the metal part of a p-clamp to get this a bit lower. Might be a little too low because of the other nut. Might be able to fix this with a longer bolt
LBS used this p-clamp because the hole in that bridge thing is vertical and not horizontal
Used some presta valve things as spacers in the back:
Mostly seem to have trouble with the front wobbling though. I wonder if it’s because of the fender eyelets being inside the fork and half way up. Also seems to screw up the curve around the back part of the wheel, as it sorta bulges out a bit. Also I think the threading inside one side is stripped a bit. It still holds but I can’t seem to get it tightened.
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Squirrel1](https://tarck.cc/u/Andrew_Squirrel1)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/babby-its-cold-outside/21011/33 "2015-10-14T18:12:33Z")
Whoa dat rear rack location is remarkable. Wheelies for daaaaays
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### Author:  [@Itsmattbb](https://tarck.cc/u/Itsmattbb)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/babby-its-cold-outside/21011/34 "2015-10-14T18:14:48Z")
> [@Andrew\_Squirrel](#):
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> Whoa dat rear rack location is remarkable. Wheelies for daaaaays
Yea it wouldn’t clear the calipers otherwise with that rack (with the set of shorter brackets that came with it) and I didn’t feel like returning it and getting some other kind. I ride with a blackburn pannier scooched up as far as it will go and it rides fine. Plus, no chance of heel strike.
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### Author:  [@eric\_ssucks](https://tarck.cc/u/eric_ssucks)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/babby-its-cold-outside/21011/35 "2015-10-14T19:44:29Z")
You probably need a front attachment to tame the front fender wiggle.
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### Author:  [@Itsmattbb](https://tarck.cc/u/Itsmattbb)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/babby-its-cold-outside/21011/36 "2015-10-14T22:32:36Z")
You mean like move the top attachment to the front of the fork, or an additional piece of hardware of some sort?
thanks
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### Author:  [@crowding1](https://tarck.cc/u/crowding1)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 10:48pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/babby-its-cold-outside/21011/37 "2015-10-14T22:48:58Z")
I’ve used two L-brackets, one on either side of the fork crown.
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### Author:  [@JUGE\_FREDD](https://tarck.cc/u/JUGE_FREDD)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 11:01pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/babby-its-cold-outside/21011/38 "2015-10-14T23:01:25Z")
[quote=BabbyMatt]
LBS used this p-clamp because the hole in that bridge thing is vertical and not horizontal
[/quote]
they went out of their way to fuck that up
you drill the fender and bolt it directly to the bridge
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Squirrel1](https://tarck.cc/u/Andrew_Squirrel1)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 11:03pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/babby-its-cold-outside/21011/39 "2015-10-14T23:03:00Z")
Also, if you plan on dynamoing that bike you can use a light mount like this which has a fender stabilizer built-in
[](https://flic.kr/p/eR3ArN)
[IQ Cyo and Cantilever Fork Crown Lamp Mount](https://flic.kr/p/eR3ArN) by [Andrew Squirrel](https://www.flickr.com/photos/andy_squirrel/), on Flickr
It does take a little finesse to get everything lined up properly
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### Author:  [@joyofvaping](https://tarck.cc/u/joyofvaping)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/babby-its-cold-outside/21011/40 "2015-10-15T00:27:22Z")
If I were you, I’d drill the rear fender like Fred said, and mount the fenders tight to the brake bridge and fork crown. Then mount the biggest tires that’ll fit under the fenders, and adjust the spacers down by the bb and fender stays for perfect fender line. That’s how I’ve done things.
Andrew- that’s clever, awesome!
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