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Looking to protect the down tube on a carbon frame from rock strikes and the likes, what would you folks recommend?
Nice bit of alloy wrapped round it?
3M copter tape is the best for what I here
But there are cheaper options
I bought large sheets of similar for my Orange 5 AM and
have not let me down
Purchased them through onlinebikes £ 10.00p
I have used several different options:
heli tape - worked well and is cheap, just replace whenever you feel like it. Will take a fairly big strike.
Carbon sheet - work really well but is expensive and a bit of a pain to cut. they cantake a fairly big stone strike.
Alloy plate - Works brillantly but adds weight and is expensive and hard to replace if you need to. makes a nice ping sound instead of a heart breaking dunk. These will take a really big hit.
None of them will take a full on frame breaker, the alloy will take a bigger hit but frankly its not really worth the hassle. Good thick helitape is what I use these days and it works great plus it does ad a load of weight.
I zip-tied some old tyre down my downtube to protect it from rock strikes on the top part of the mega qualifier last year.
(alu tube, on a socom, but it was taking a bit of a beating and I didn't want any dents)
Heli-tape down the full length, and a crud-catcher.
Looks like helicopter tape gets the majority vote. I notice at the cycle show that Felt had a down tube protector on their bikes, simulare to a Crud be lower down the tube ending at the BB.
sanitary towels, you could vary the thickness according to the season?
LOL Nutt you Nutter LOL
sanitary towels
Perhaps that would only work on an [b]On-One[/b]?