spoke guards - the ugly plastic things that turn yellow

[Dead Rats]

just seen one in the FS section - does anyone even use them? I have a box FULL of them (30+) from builds... the only looker is the alloy one off an '80s Raleigh Wisp - resembles a '50s B-movie UFO


surely everyone is with me here... they are a manufacturers insurance policy against poorly set up rear mechs, and...


they're GASH

 

[dyna-ti]

:?
You know they're useless
You know they're ugly
So why are you keeping so many :?

Cos we know you're a bloody hoarder

Get them in the bin

 

[PIGEON]

Yes I think you're safe throwing them out, I don't suspect any of them have been owned by an A list celeb like Jake Gyllenhaal and as such don't display similar oracular qualities

http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2010/02 ... rself.html

 

[Steve Kish]

Where's your sense of initiative? Can of pink paint and you've got a load of poodle doggie frizbies!

 

[one-eyed_jim]

they're GASH

Yeah, they're gash.

BUT it doesn't take much of a knock to put your rear mech hanger a couple of degrees out of line. That can be enough to send the chain over the top of the cassette, and momentum does the rest. Either the chain gets sucked down between the cassette and the spokes, or the derailleur gets dragged into the wheel.

One twisted mech, cracked hub flange, bent cassette sprocket, mangled dropout later, a plastic pie plate looks like cheap insurance.

 

[dyna-ti]

they're GASH

Yeah, they're gash.

BUT it doesn't take much of a knock to put your rear mech hanger a couple of degrees out of line. That can be enough to send the chain over the top of the cassette, and momentum does the rest. Either the chain gets sucked down between the cassette and the spokes, or the derailleur gets dragged into the wheel.

One twisted mech, cracked hub flange, bent cassette sprocket, mangled dropout later, a plastic pie plate looks like cheap insurance.

There you go dead rats.I think one eyed jim is showing interest
He has supplied the logic ,now you get the hard sell in.

 

[Dead Rats]

am I to post up a pic of all of them?

 

[one-eyed_jim]

There you go dead rats.I think one eyed jim is showing interest

I'm just talking the market up with a view to offloading my own collection!



But seriously, I could use one to fit a 40-spoke wheel and a 36t big sprocket...

 

[Dead Rats]

There you go dead rats.I think one eyed jim is showing interest

I'm just talking the market up with a view to offloading my own collection!



But seriously, I could use one to fit a 40-spoke wheel and a 36t big sprocket...

ha! what diameter? :roll:

 

[one-eyed_jim]

Hmm ... about eight inches? Let me measure and get back to you...