The first Adventure Cycling guided tours are getting underway in Florida this month but there are still plenty of fabulous trips from which to choose! Join our Arizona Road Adventure or Texas Hill Country tour and stretch your early season legs in the sunshine. Check out our Black Hills, Inn-to-Inn tour, the spectacular Tetons-Yellowstone Van trip, Denali Adventure, Glacier-Waterton Loop, Selkirk Splendor, Cascadian Traverse, or the new (and very challenging) Sierra Cascades self-contained tour.
What about the fun new Finger Lakes Loop, Vermont Inn-to-Inn, and Cape Cod Pilgrimage tours? These trips will guide riders along the Northeast's quaint roads and valleys, where stunning ocean views and landscapes, as well as tranquil riding, can be found. Florida sound good? Sign up for this fall's Florida Keys tour!
We truly have an adventure for nearly every cyclist -- check out our 2012 guided tours now.
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
This is one of the few bicycle components or accessories of any kind that I've actually enjoyed putting together. When you buy it, the fender is stamped into a flat plastic sheet, which you need to punch out and fold, then snap into the mounting clamp. You will need a Phillips head screw driver to put the seatpost mounting clamp together and a 4mm allen key to cinch the fender to your seat post (so it isn't an origami project from start to finish).
Once installed, the fender does a good job of staying put, so long as you tighten it snugly to your seat post. At its widest, it measures 5" and tapers down to 3.5" wide at the tail, which is nearly enough to provide full coverage on my Surly Pugsley. The fender reaches out a long 17.5" which will help keep the water from tailing too high off your back wheel; people riding behind you will appreciate it.
At $25 it is well priced against the competition and a matching downtube mounted front origami fender is also available for $20.
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