Opinions: Fenders or No Fenders?

[roadrover]

Converting this '76 Collegiate Tourist into a cafe-racer looking thing. To be consistent with that style I'd be fenderless but for some reason I like the look of all that chrome.

If I do no no-fenders I'll probably chop the kickstand and nubs that held the cables as well...

thoughts?

 

[Andrew Gorman]

It depends on your inspiration- English "clubman" bikes almost always had fenders, even if they were plastic. Other "racing bikes" did not. I'm not exactly sure what a cafe racer is either. I'd definitely lose the kickstand mount, but would probably keep the cable nubs if they are in the right place for a geared hub or your brakes. Just an opinion...

 

[Sped Man]

Lose those fenders. There are some bikes out there that look great without.

 

[bricycle]

Locate a more traditional chainwheel also....

 

[rustjunkie]

I'd go fenderless, but keep the kickstand...very convenient, and unmistakably Schwinn