It has been designed to prevent your rear end from getting wet while minimising the faff and rattle that comes with a full mudguard. Minimal guards tend to get less clogged but they don’t really work as spray from the rear wheel will get through. Moving on, to deploy the same idiom that Ass Savers uses in describing removable fenders in general, the ubiquity of plastic feels like a current necessary evil.

All Win Wing parts can be bought and replaced separately and packaging is kept to the bare essentials. It consists of three pieces: a fiberglass-reinforced polyamid Nylon arch and two TPU (thermoplastic polyurethane) straps. The key to understanding how the Win Wing works lies in physics: water and mud leave the wheel in a straight line from the tangential point of release. As an experienced snapper with decades behind the lens, Russell has shot thousands of bike tests and features, but is an experienced rider and tester, too, putting gravel and MTB gear through its paces around Salisbury Plain and the Scottish Highlands. PayPal Credit and PayPal Pay in 3 are trading names of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH.I thought the best way to prove this one way or the other was to mount my camera on my seat post looking back at the Win Wing and ride through quite a lot of mud. The secret to transforming a flat piece of plastic into a functioning mudguard lies in the pre-folding prior to use.

This is a great aid to staying dry on solo rides, but please get your full-length-mudguards-equipped bike out for group rides.The ends of the Wishbone legs are slightly curved, to seat better against the seat stays and directly above each is a slot that the strap intuitively feeds through. I've had them for 2 years, no rattles, easy to take off (I don't as I use my Gravel when motorhoming) if needed and full cover too.