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rogerzilla

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Pie plates
« on: 08 March, 2010, 06:10:12 pm »
Bike Snob NYC: Pie In The Sky: A World Without Spoke Protectors

I hate them most on MTBs, because the clear plastic ones look terrible when they're plastered with mud  :sick:

Learn to adjust the limit screws, dudes!
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Wobbly John

Re: Pie plates
« Reply #1 on: 08 March, 2010, 08:53:39 pm »
The original Raleigh Chopper ones were cool...



...but why'd they need them with a Sturmey hub?  ???
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rogerzilla

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Re: Pie plates
« Reply #2 on: 08 March, 2010, 08:54:20 pm »
Quote from: Wobbly John on 08 March, 2010, 08:53:39 pm
The original Raleigh Chopper ones were cool...



...but why'd they need them with a Sturmey hub?  ???

Seventies kids ran such slack chains, man.
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Moloko

Re: Pie plates
« Reply #3 on: 08 March, 2010, 08:57:43 pm »
I swapped the block on the fugly steel MTB and I left the guard on?

I've now missed my chance to remove it.
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rogerzilla

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Re: Pie plates
« Reply #4 on: 08 March, 2010, 09:05:06 pm »
You can snap them off without removing the cassette.  Except the metal Chopper ones, obviously.
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Moloko

Re: Pie plates
« Reply #5 on: 08 March, 2010, 09:07:04 pm »

You're a determined and destructive sod aren't you?   ;D
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rogerzilla

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Re: Pie plates
« Reply #6 on: 08 March, 2010, 09:08:04 pm »
Some things are not worthy of life.  Wasps, slugs and pie plates.
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Moloko

Re: Pie plates
« Reply #7 on: 08 March, 2010, 09:09:40 pm »

OK, it will be removed, especially as the limit stops are bang on.
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plum

Re: Pie plates
« Reply #8 on: 08 March, 2010, 09:14:54 pm »
I've often looked at mine and wished it would go away, but balk at the idea of trying to break it off in case it just bends and leaves me with something dangerous wrapped around my cassette or wheel.
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Rhys W

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Re: Pie plates
« Reply #9 on: 08 March, 2010, 10:13:15 pm »
The sign of the gringo.

Like helmet peaks and triathlon club kit, they're useful indicators of which wheels not to follow.
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MSeries

Re: Pie plates
« Reply #10 on: 08 March, 2010, 10:16:28 pm »
Quote from: Rhys W on 08 March, 2010, 10:13:15 pm
The sign of the gringo.

Like helmet peaks and triathlon club kit, they're useful indicators of which wheels not to follow.

 ;D  ;D
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andygates

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Re: Pie plates
« Reply #11 on: 09 March, 2010, 09:08:20 am »
Just for that, I'm going to get an ironic pie plate on my fixie. 

And spray it up with tri club colours. :demon:
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Re: Pie plates
« Reply #12 on: 09 March, 2010, 09:32:36 am »
Quote from: andygates on 09 March, 2010, 09:08:20 am
Just for that, I'm going to get an ironic pie plate on my fixie. 

A new fixie fashion for me to follow!

:D
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andygates

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Re: Pie plates
« Reply #13 on: 09 March, 2010, 09:35:52 am »
I'm sure I've already seen at least one -- a huge Chopper-esque ally one, with spoke cards, at that Smithfield bash.

Mind you, there was a broomhandle handlebar there, so I'm not sure it was ironic...
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phil d

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Re: Pie plates
« Reply #14 on: 09 March, 2010, 03:11:44 pm »
Used my old Dawes last weekend, which hadn't been used for quite a while before then, and someone pointed out that I have such a spoke protector.  Since I've never taken the cassette off the Dawes, it's clearly original; can't say I'd even noticed it.  But fear not - it will be removed shortly when I upgrade all to make the Dawes into a dedicated winter steed.
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clarion

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Re: Pie plates
« Reply #15 on: 09 March, 2010, 06:25:39 pm »
They don't bother me.
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Moloko

Re: Pie plates
« Reply #16 on: 09 March, 2010, 06:30:00 pm »
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Greenbank

Re: Pie plates
« Reply #17 on: 09 March, 2010, 06:36:51 pm »
Chain braking. Nasty.
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Moloko

Re: Pie plates
« Reply #18 on: 09 March, 2010, 06:39:19 pm »
Quote from: Greenbank on 09 March, 2010, 06:36:51 pm
Chain braking. Nasty.

It still sounds like a "bargin".   ::-)
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