This is my new invention

in #cycling7 years ago

I love riding a bicycle.

However, before a long ride you have to do so many things, for example: fill the water bottles and place them on a bicycle, put on a cycling gloves, install a headlight and it’s battery on a bicycle frame, put on headphones and lube a chain of a bicycle. This, the last one, lubing the chain, due to the constant rains this summer, I had to do it before every single ride, it just became too inconvenient.

I had to do something, and here is what I did:


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So I made a small chain mudguard.

You will probably say: hey, there are already chain mudguards out there and they cage the chain entirely, fully protecting it from the outside world! Well, first of all, have you ever seen a chain mudguard for a bicycles with a front derailleur? I have not. And, secondly, they lack aesthetics, would not look appealing at all on a cross-country bicycle, and they are heavy!

What I did, however, is very light and does not really change the look or characteristics of a bicycle.

I named my new little chain mudguard Sandstorm Machete and it works quite well!
Of course it does not fully protect the chain, there is still a vulnerable zone under the rear triangle, but my observations turns out to be right, as the major threat goes from the rear wheel on the upper half of a chain.
When riding on the sand, or after or during the rain, you might not notice anything at first, but during the kilometers passing by, the mixed layer of tiny stones, sand and dirt growing on the top side of the mudguard, all of which, otherwise, would’ve ended up in a chain, damaging it. 0771.jpg

As a result, the chain remains silent during the rides after the rain for as long as it should be, like if the weather is nice and dry, and doesn’t matter it is a city or a countryside – it quite well shielding the chain area of a derailleur from a mud and clogging too.

So not only I made something from nothing, it is even working and it is working great!


After such a positive outcome, I thought: it will not be right if I keep it only for myself, so I decided to share this novelty with the world, and started a campaign on indiegogo website, where you can get one for yourself now too.

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