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I can see a low-riding cruiser with a rider to match sporting easy rider handlebars on the way to the Provicetown beach sporting da flaps looookin' coool and catching glances.
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Thread: Fenders, a Seattle necessity!
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05-28-2006, 06:06 PM #16
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heck - I was going to offer to give you a buddy flap for free. I still have probably 1/2 a dozen around from the winter. I seemed to always get stuck behind the person without a buddy flap on all of my team's winter training rides so I made a whole bunch and started handing them out. You'd have to settle for the girl done in black sharpie though....
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05-28-2006, 06:14 PM #17
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05-28-2006, 06:30 PM #18
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Ha ha! Now we just gotta get 'em to make the "sporty girl" version of the girlie flap. They do custom orders....
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05-28-2006, 06:48 PM #19
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I've got Buddy Flaps. Found them through a friend in Seattle. Apparently I was the first purchase outside the Seattle area. And no, I didn't get the girls, but I did get a set of the girls for my favorite mechanic.
Oh, and they're reflective too!
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05-28-2006, 10:34 PM #20
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Buddy flaps (with or without pinup) are an absolute necessity on winter paceline. There's so much stuff flying from the rear wheel, and no fender goes low enough to prevent the flying from happening. So the flaps (which I make out of water bottles) are a safety item, because all that stuff flying can be quite dangerous on winter roads...
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05-29-2006, 06:56 AM #21
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Grog "So the flaps (which I make out of water bottles)...."
How do you do that? Other than recycle them I never know what to do with old, yucky water bottles.
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05-30-2006, 02:43 PM #22
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Cut the bottom and the top of the waterbottle off, then section the body in half vertically from top to bottom. This will produce a nice curved 4" wide flap with a narrow neck which you use as a fastening point to ziptie/poprivet to the end of your fenders.
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How do you do that? Other than recycle them I never know what to do with old, yucky water bottles.
ETA: Here's a visual:
http://www.tandemhearts.com/bike/ram...-mud--flap.jpgLast edited by Dianyla; 05-30-2006 at 02:47 PM.
