Ill admit I was warned...

[GW's Motorized]

Just to start off with, fenders look sick, but they come at a price.

I love the look of fenders on a bike, and I would love to keep them, but I should have taken the 5 or 10 minutes to reinforce mine.

My bike is an older Huffy Newport. It's an amazing frame, and it has fenders.

I was headed down the road going 35 when with zero warning my bike started skidding almost like socks on tile. It went for almost an entire block. My rear fenders had busted off its mount and bound up the rear wheel and went under it. Now my rear wheel is screwed and the almost brand new tire.

These are the pictures

This is what it did to my fender

 

[ImpulseRocket]

Just stop over to my house...I got plenty here that needs doing...lol.

Funny thing is, I was just thinking something similar. I need young(er) people help to move out a pile of scrap sheet metal from an old shed and a bunch of burning wood that needs cleaned up and organized. There has to be somebody out there that needs some kind of help doing some sort of random task or cleaning. Hell, put an ad up on marketplace or craigslist and see if you get any bites. Just say "General Labor" and set your rate based on the work they want done - a good way to avoid being paid 10 bucks to shovel a yard full of animal turds (was my first private enterprise lol).

 

[Wolfie65]

If you live in an area where rain/mud are an issue, fenders might be helpful, but you do need to make extra sure you mount them very securely and check them before every ride.
Otherwise, they are just unnecessary dead weight, as well as potentially hazardous.

 

[Flight Risk]

You might find work as an apprentice to a landscaper or painter. I can't believe what my parents paid for a couple days of trimming trees and bushes. Over $3,000 for a man and helper for 2 days work and haul-away!

 

[cloakedvillain]

You might find work as an apprentice to a landscaper or painter. I can't believe what my parents paid for a couple days of trimming trees and bushes. Over $3,000 for a man and helper for 2 days work and haul-away!

If you've ever had to do it you'd know its a pita and hard on your body. I don't blame the old for spending some money to make their life easier; You just don't recover from physical stress anywhere like you used to.

 

[Flight Risk]

This is the sort of work I did summers during high school 50 years ago for $1.60 hr. and I thought I was doing good because the kids working at Tasty Freeze were making $1.10 hr.. Yes it's hard work.

 

[GW's Motorized]

This is the sort of work I did summers during high school 50 years ago for $1.60 hr. and I thought I was doing good because the kids working at Tasty Freeze were making $1.10 hr.. Yes it's hard work.

I actually enjoy yard work. The heat doesn't really bother me either

 

[DAMIEN1307]

The heat doesn't really bother me either

OK, good...When you come down here for the yardwork I need pulling out mesquite thorn bushes and goatheads, I will remember that you said heat doesn't bother you when it hits 110 degrees farenheit...lol...lol.

 

[ImpulseRocket]

OK, good...When you come down here for the yardwork I need pulling out mesquite thorn bushes and goatheads, I will remember that you said heat doesn't bother you when it hits 110 degrees farenheit...lol...lol.

The humidity is so low there he won't even notice the heat.

 

[GW's Motorized]

OK, good...When you come down here for the yardwork I need pulling out mesquite thorn bushes and goatheads, I will remember that you said heat doesn't bother you when it hits 110 degrees farenheit...lol...lol.

Where I live the temperature gets to 106 to 108 every day in the dead of summer. It's probably more humid here too since I live a 15 minute walk from the river

 

[DAMIEN1307]

The humidity is so low there he won't even notice the heat.

"But it's a dry heat", bull cookies, buffalo chips, and meadow muffins, tell that to my sun scorched hide totally sunburned in 10 minutes of exposure.

People tell me that I remind them of "Walter"...lol.