Yeah, these things that the end of the stay plugs into....https://www.spacycles.co.uk/m19b0s190p3 ... m-%28pr%29
Found some more stuff.....https://www.cyclinguk.org/article/techn ... ard-safety
Yeah, these things that the end of the stay plugs into....https://www.spacycles.co.uk/m19b0s190p3 ... m-%28pr%29
blimey, can you cut mudguard stays with those? ....don't shake my hand!Cowsham wrote: ↑22 Nov 2022, 12:36am
............https://www.amazon.co.uk/Draper-Expert- ... th=1&psc=1
Absolutely -- my hands aren't strong at all -- I get the wife to open jam jars.531colin wrote: ↑22 Nov 2022, 10:28pmblimey, can you cut mudguard stays with those?Cowsham wrote: ↑22 Nov 2022, 12:36am
............https://www.amazon.co.uk/Draper-Expert- ... th=1&psc=1
I have a set of these, can't imagine them getting through the stays.. I'll take you word for it.Cowsham wrote: ↑22 Nov 2022, 12:36am Here's the link
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Draper-Expert- ... th=1&psc=1
There really is no problem:
keyboardmonkey wrote: ↑25 Nov 2022, 9:26amThere really is no problem:
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I have a pair of mudguards similar to the Lifeline ones. I’m not a fan, but that’s probably in part my fault because it seems likely I cut too much off the stay ends. They do their job of popping out from time to time, but not so far in any sort of emergency.
I have a feint scar that is now over 40 years old, running down my shin from when I was fitting a pair of ESGE chromoplastics but needed to be out for work (errands boy) before finishing the job, so I left the stays untrimmed, to do later. On arriving at work, I dismounted and scraped my leg. Didn't think much of it until my boss pointed out the pool of blood forming on the floor next to my foot.
My emphasis.531colin wrote: ↑21 Nov 2022, 12:05pm
So far, I have found the SKS breakaways to be 100% at preventing this happening....the breakaways release with a considerable clatter and almost all the time whatever got stuck in the first place drops out never to be found....I have had an exception once (off road) when a stick got caught in the spokes and the guard folded up before the stays released; the guard came up alongside the down tube and I could only steer one way, and as I was on grazing land I went round in a circle until I fell off ....I suppose if you had the presence of mind (or panic) you could force the steering. Other than that time, I just put the breakaways back and carry on....I guess they release maybe once a year, on tracks.