While nerfs can be annoying what they provide outweighs that, protection from other bikes, debris flying up, helps with balancing out on extreme leans, gives you more foot placement options if need be, helps haul a passenger, helps prevent floot slipping off peg or getting caught in tire, gives a good place to grab incase something happends and you need to lift the bike up onto its side or flip it over if its on top of somebody or something. Things i hate about them is the extra 50lbs of mud they collect and how sometimes shit gets stuck in the nets, sometimes your foot can actually get caught in it also other than that i like them.