I know they are cheap as chips but what has anybody come up with to protect against chainsuck and downtube strikes?

I used matt helicopter tape from Paragon Tapes on eBay.

🙄 you can spot a Carbon 456 noob a mile off. Can’t wait to laugh at your cable routing new boy.

I put about a mile of helicopter tape on mine- not from any fear of damage, just because the finish scratches quite easily.

As for chainsuck, I’m just ignoring it really- I put a couple of cable ties on it like I do with most bikes but supposedly the chainstay is designed with a load of redundancy in it to allow for chainsuck damage.

BBB do a nice long piece of thick rubbery tape you can stick to the underside of downtube. Zip tie a chopped up innertube round the chainstay. Job done.

which did you buy bro? raw, matt, red, Sconey red/black or some other?

I really fancy a custom fit type thing but heli tape will have to do 🙁

Went for satin I think, whatever is 299.. 😀

The painted ones just scratch badly anyway. (or is satin painted?)

Already started buying blue bling!!

yep, I decided against red paint after seeing Sconey’s. Matt, satin, raw etc much better idea, at 299 with no real finish you can trash it and not really care too much.

if you get sam to make some custom decals, i’ll have some as well.