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  • Amazing! I want one! DIY front fender!
  • Kahurangi
    Full Member

    Oh yes, get one today! Happiness is only a milk bottle away!

    Yeah it looks gash, but combined with a normal crud catcher it keeps everything off, and is practically invisible when coated in mud, like it should be!

    It can't be that hard, seriously. I

    took scissors to a 4 pint milk bottle to get the basic shape,
    marked off where I wanted to put cable ties,
    cut with a stanley knife,
    held in place with cable ties in 3 places,
    trimmed shape a bit more with scissors.

    Job done, go ride.

    Idea blatantly stolen from Mucky Nutz, no apologies.

    /edit – pics fixed

    njee20
    Free Member

    Edit: computer being gay error…

    Looks cheap and cheerful. Like all mudguards, including expensive and miserable ones.

    Kahurangi
    Full Member

    are pics not working at all??? I made a mistake in the links so it showed the first one 4 times, that should be fixed now.

    /edit, not your computer fault at all.

    It looks cheap and miserable (much like myself), but is mostly ridden in the mud and dark (much like myself) 😆

    nockmeister
    Free Member

    looking good…nice bit of ghetto that

    steve_b77
    Free Member

    Should've used a Cravendale bottle for opaque plastic styling

    duntstick
    Free Member

    I'm sure I've got a suitably black oil tub somewhere, nice one 🙂

    imp999
    Free Member

    Nice one!
    I love stuff like that. Looks better than my innertube Neoguard.
    Only slight mod I would make would be holes instead of slits for the zip-ties to stop splitting.
    Some of these might start appearing on the wife's/kid's bikes.

    Kahurangi
    Full Member

    Cravendale… *whistles* now that's high-end ghetto

    juiced
    Free Member

    love it!

    Bendigo
    Free Member

    Good work! I ripped off the mucky nutz too after seeing it on BikeGaydar.

    I used the back off of a plastic folder and cordless drill for zip-tie holes. Would post a pic bit it's the coldest night in the history of the world, apparently.

    Think I prefer milk bottle-tech for the larger size!

    igm
    Full Member

    like

    Kahurangi
    Full Member

    I used the back off of a plastic folder and cordless drill for zip-tie holes.

    Winner! For ultimate colour customisation and slightly more rugged plastic covering!

    Hooray!

    langy
    Free Member

    nice… I can feel the need for a few milk bottles come winter here, now.

    'like'

    tinsy
    Free Member

    You can but the real thing for as little as £3, there is a new model of this that comes of the handlebars and looks naff, or you can make the neo gaurd for free too using an innertube, as a gurad against water the milk bottle is fine, but I can imagine cutting it off trailside once your into proper sticky mud and its dragging on all the clag built up on your tyre.

    Old style cable tie on
    http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=621

    New style bar mount.
    http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=39951

    oldgrump08
    Free Member

    Rather have ghetto than those!

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