Yes, Fenders can be VERY Dangerous

[allen standley]

At the very least if you decide to run with fenders go to the hardware store and buy some small framing (L) Brackets. They are cheap insurance. If you weld do what I did ... 7 plus years later and NO Fender failures. See my Safe Fenders Album.
https://motorbicycling.com/media/albums/safe-fenders.1277/

 

[xXNightRiderXx]

They absolutely can be. I personally have experienced this. I have a dual springer monarch fork on my bike, and I will not put any fender on that wheel. The last time I did, it caught on the tire on a speed dip and threw me off the bike. I'm lucky. It could have been a bump on the main road, or it could have caught at any old time at speed. Ride safe, ride free.

PS: I am lucky a LOT, but I don't rely on my luck. I make it. I have been crashing bicycles ever since I can remember, so I have the proper response to a crash programmed into muscle memory. Do NOT think that just because I have escaped unscathed from a lot of my crashes, it means you will too. Crashes are unpredictable at best.

 

[allen standley]

Another story with endings which could have been far worse. Most others are. As xX says Ride Safe All!

 

[bairdco]

I never had problems with fenders. But all my bikes used old steel fenders with real fender struts, not like the cheap tin ones bikes come with now. There used to be a sticky about how I mounted fenders, but it got lost in obscurity after the forum change.

 

[Greg58]

Eric has put a sticky in the instructions section about fenders.

 

[Johnny trigger]

After unfortunate incident with my fenders. I took both the vertical arms that connect fender to the frame off. I just drove a bolt up of through the middle of the fender and connected it directly to my Rear basket

 

[Nickton]

I was thinking of making a fender out of old tossed out brass horn parts. Kind of a steam punk look I think.

 

[Sidewinder Jerry]

I was thinking of making a fender out of old tossed out brass horn parts. Kind of a steam punk look I think.

Do your research, don't make the next ride the last ride.

 

[Nickton]

Okay then thanks for the heads up.