Just picked up my new Whyte T-130C RS & ordered an Invisiframe Kit.
My first carbon frame so looking to protect it, but not paying extra £25 to also Invisiframe the forks.
Can anyone recommend me some good quality protection tape to wrap the Pikes in.
Thanks.
Sand them down and rattle can them if they ever get beaten up?
Saw the title and came here to recommend invisiframe. It's expensive, but you get what you pay for. They will also supply parts of kits if something does get battered.
Just get some heli-tape from eBay. Cheap and good enough for, well, helicopter rotor blades.
Easy as sellotape to apply. I use it everywhere, particularly to prevent cable rub around the head tube and it's easily robust enough to protect against fork strikes.
Bear in mind that your forks aren't liable to stone/rock strikes. I've never even thought about protecting mine for that exact reason.
Your downtube is liable to suffer most.
Thanks for the input.
I am also going to add some more protection to the downtube.
buys £3k+ plus bike, but refuses to pay £25 👍
Fork lowers are most vulnerable to cable rub, ziptie rub and scraping on rocks when crashing.
You can use tape (mastic tape is best) for the first two, the latter will be mitigated by something like Invisiframe.
If you won't spring for the real deal, decent helitape will do an OK job butlook a bit more amateur (never bothered me).
Buy some cheap helitape. It'll do the job but odds are it'll look pretty ugly.
Or buy Invisiframe and it'll look much better
buys £3k+ plus bike, but refuses to pay £25 👍
I was going to argue with this - but you're probably right!
I did my fork lowers with helitape, made a template with paper to get the shape right.
Gusset Tek Tape from Tredz is rebranded 3M and 1mX100mm is about £11.50 and can do a whole bike
Has anybody used these?
https://gnartec.com/product/mtb-fork-protector/
Seem like they might be good if you live somewhere really rocky?
I like the look of the downtube protector they have just launched..
Has anybody used these?
> https://gnartec.com/product/mtb-fork-protector/ < Seem like they might be good if you live somewhere really rocky?
Hahaha, I have to say that is the most pointless, overpriced, absolutely stupid product I've seen in a long time!
It's an MTB, they're suspension forks, not some sort of precious family heirloom.
I can see the point in protecting a carbon down-tube, but forks?