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One thing that makes bicycle commuting a lot better is a place to park your bike inside. Leaving your trusty steed to the elements and passers by outdoors is just no fun. When you bring your bike inside you also sometimes bring in some unwanted things as well; like leaves, dirt, and road grime.

I am lucky to be able to park my bike inside but I also want to remain in the good graces of our Sanitations Engineers. Janitors are cool people and there is no way I want to make their jobs difficult.

Fenders are great but have a tendency to collect all sorts of muck. I have noticed at times, especially after riding to work in the rain, that when I roll my bike out of the file room at night, there is an assemblage of items that have fallen out of my fenders as the water has dried over the course of the day. The most common culprit is leaf fragments.

In serendipitous moment one day I discovered a simple solution to fight fender muck – a plastic fork from my favorite Vietnamese restaurant. I happened to have a fork in my jacket pocket and a bright light went on in my head. Turns out the contour exactly matches my Planetbike Freedy Fenders! On nasty, wet days before I head inside I turn it upside down and scrape out as much of the muck as possible.

I now keep the fork at the ready with a rubber band on my seat post. Now tell me you’ve seen someone rocking a plastic fork on their bike before.

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