The photo posted of the 4 piece mud flap is a bad example to use in a decision to have a mud flap or not. The one in the photo is waaaaay to low and it's obvious they drove on a nasty (probably Alaskan) road for a long time.
My mud flap is more than 5" off of the ground at ride height. It came that way and doesn't throw anything onto my toad. Someone taking one off for weight savings is silly. They're mostly on DP's and they won't change your mpg or give you increased CCW of any consequence.
This will get me flamed, but most of the people I've talked to removed their mud flaps because they were constantly damaging them or had destroyed them by not paying attention.
