I love how smug and condescending this is. Makes me want to run out and buy a roll...
On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 5:07:09 PM UTC-8, jeffrey kane wrote: > > Your chain stay protector is doing it's job if it protects the paint on > your stay -- and if it does that (and often) then it's going to be filthy > before long. All that pretty cloth tape & twine work ends up looking like > it's covered in black slime after a time and well, if that's your idea of > beausage then go for it ... Me, I'm with Will on this one. A roll of clear > Heli tape (like they sell for paddle board repair) is effective, clean > looking and easily replaced, And you can sneak in little pieces around the > front of the BB shell and cable housings where they may rub against your > head tube, etc ... the stuff is versatile and downright cheap in the long > view. > > On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 5:05:59 PM UTC-5, Patrick Moore wrote: >> >> When I did my Varsity rebuild circa 1971, one problem I had with the >> conversion was that, with a 39 or 40 t ring, 16 and 18 t cogs, and a heavy >> 1/8" wide chain, the chain would smack the newly hand-sprayed stay roughly >> over bumps. I had some vague idea of chrome, and (this being Nairobi, where >> bike parts were very scarce) I made my own chainstay protector from metal >> cut from a tin can, the interior silver more or less giving a chromed >> effect. I cut a more or oess 7" strip with tags fore and aft and on either >> side, punched holes in the tags, and used them to clamp the thing to the >> stay with small nuts and bolts. >> >> It looked (to my 16 year old eyes, anyway) pretty nice, matching the >> silver aluminum fenders. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
