Thanks folks and best of all it lasted four days up there. She had been in hospital for a week I when she came out there it was my new stead in all its glory. She was unable to move it herself. Strange, there was a fifty/fifty split, men for it up there women against. I'll give it while then I'll let her 'find' this thread 😈
Looks like helicopter tape gets the majority vote. I notice at the cycle show that Felt had a down tube protector on their bikes, simulare to a Crud be lower down the tube ending at the BB.