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pedalpower2
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Chris Judens method looks fiddly and complicated. I'll continue using pop-rivets.
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if I said 'stortford style' would this be well known to one and all?

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CREPELLO
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pedalpower2 wrote:Chris Judens method looks fiddly and complicated. I'll continue using pop-rivets.

Yup, thanks for bringing this to our attention, but apparently summer has started.
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pedalpower2 wrote:Chris Judens method looks fiddly and complicated.


I'd be happy to try it but so far haven't source a truck inner tube. Where do you get them from? I asked for an old tube in KwikFit but they said they didn't do them any more.
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LollyKat wrote:
pedalpower2 wrote:Chris Judens method looks fiddly and complicated.


I'd be happy to try it but so far haven't source a truck inner tube. Where do you get them from? I asked for an old tube in KwikFit but they said they didn't do them any more.

I've always made my mudflaps from cycle inner tube (as I've probably said above...some years ago). They do need doubling in thickness (evostik or similar), but have the advantage that they curve naturally to the shape of your wheel.
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http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/page/find/?name=mudflap
I have the £4 SKS Long on the rear of the trike - extra protection for the trailer (occupants)

As part of a larger order the postage was trivial - I'm tempted to order another 5 (2 for my front wheels, and 3 for MrsBob's trike)
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LollyKat wrote:
pedalpower2 wrote:Chris Judens method looks fiddly and complicated.


I'd be happy to try it but so far haven't source a truck inner tube. Where do you get them from? I asked for an old tube in KwikFit but they said they didn't do them any more.

Found mine on a verge by the road whilst out cycling. Keep your eyes peeled!

I guess that people who repair old cars, trucks and especially agricultural equipment (on which the tyres run at low pressure so are more likely to have inner tubes) must be a likely source. I don't know for sure my material came from a truck. I guess it might just as likely or more likely have come from a farm trailer etc.
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I old plastic bottles, current one is from car antifreeze. it is attached using hot melt glue to the inside of the guard. When cutting out the plastic leave a tongue at the top just slightly smaller than the curved width of the mudguard. then use a glue gun to stick to the inside. If you drill a couple of holes in the tongue the glue will push through and effectively form a plastic rivet. Pushing the mud flap into the mudguard curves the mud flap to the right shape
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I wonder if any kind soul might help me out. I bought an old school mudflap (see image) off Ebay 3 or 4 years ago for my front mudguard and, for some reason, I had to remove it about a year ago; therein lies my problem: I could not recall how it went on and I've tried every permutation of mudguard strut/mudguard fixing/mudflap but have never been able to re-attach it so that it hung correctly.

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do the 'ears' not double over the mudguard stays somehow?

Quite a lot of retro-fit mudguards attach over the outside of the mudguard BTW.

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What about some black roofing felt, the kind used on garden sheds and the like?
You could cut it to any shape easily.. Your local timber merchant or similar may even have some off cuts that they would probably give away if you ask nicely?
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Round my way some new power line poles have been erected. Nailed to them are strips of very reflective plastic. It is perfect for mudflaps :wink:
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Mine's made from a piece of PVC cut from an old 1970s vinyl settee. It's clamped under the stay bracket, if you're drilling and riveting there's no point in putting another set of holes and rivets in.
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Brucey wrote:if I said 'stortford style' would this be well known to one and all?

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No - not even after a few minutes 'research'.

I found this: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=58981&p=498471&hilit=stortford#p498471
and I found a US patent (No. 4,625,938; Dec.2, 1986) for a mudflap material invented by Ronald G. Tye of Bishop's Stortford.

Oh go on! Please elaborate :)
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Brucey wrote:if I said 'stortford style' would this be well known to one and all?

google offers me "Style Me Vintage". Somehow, I don't think that's what Brucey meant.

These and these are the only commercially made rear flaps that I've come across that are long enough to protect a following rider or trailer occupants. Put your face where you want to keep clean, and if you can see the tyre past the flap, it's not long enough.
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