Sunday, October 7, 2012

DIY bicycle mudguard


I have a rear rack and so most of the muck from the road doesn't reach my back. However, my chain and gears have been getting quite dirty after cycling on wet roads. Not really needing a full mudguard and having an unused packet of polymorph pellets of thermoplastic from Jaycar, I went about mashing out my own mudguard. It required a clothes iron, baking paper and some scissors and cable ties to fasten it to the frame. We'll see if it's any good or indeed whether it melts away in summer...