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Short mudguards protect the brakes and very little else.
Photo shows the relationship between guard length and mud - think tangents - most of the crud on my BB/chain comes from the front wheel.
I live in an area where agricultural levels of mud on the road makes clean & dry preferable to smelling and looking like shit (much of the 'mud' has passed through cows) and for me the trade off against street cred is worth it.
Perhaps you need more than one bike?
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