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I've a lovely new Pace RC127, which is a thing of great beauty and quite lovely. Did say it's a lovely thing to look at?
I can't seem to find a made to measure set of frame protection tape stuff.
Any recommends for generic kits? Zefal seem to be pretty reasonable, and there's plenty of options for Helitape on Ebay. Invisiframe have a generic kit too. Being made out of mostly straight round tubes will make application simpler I guess.
I'm not a total fuss about scrapes and scratches (it is a mountain bike after all!), but keeping it in a mostly nice condition will be nice.
Invisiframe will make you a custom set (then put it on sale to anyone else that wants one), if they don’t make one already.
It’s worth asking.
Long strip of heli-tape / bike-tape under the down tube and patches at critical cable rub points does the job for me. Just cut to shape and I only need rectangular shapes. I don't cover the whole bike in protection as there's no need. Regular Velcro type chain stay protector to deal with chain slap.
That said, looking at pics of the RC127, it has cable running under the down tube, so that might cause problems.
Still, steel frame so mud and scratches are part of the experience.
I have an invisiframe kit, although applied by the shop when I got the frame so cant comment on fitting, but it looks great. I have seen others bikes where they have just applied tape in random places and it doesnt look as tidy or if will last as long.
Did say it’s a lovely thing to look at?
You did, but you DIDN'T POST A PHOTO OF IT.
Tsk tsk.
+1 for asking Invisiframe if they'll do a custom kit, sometimes they give a discount for the first person to give them a specific frame/size.
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