David Jenkins
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| posted on 10/7/07 at 07:21 PM |
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I'bve joined the BCMC!
...the 'Broken Cycle Mudguard Club' that is!
I was zooming home from town this evening, when I heard an unusual rattling noise - quite a trick when you consider how noisy my car is - and when I
looked around I could see my nearside mudguard flapping way more than it usually does. Managed to get home without it flying off. 
One stay had snapped right above the hole for the mounting bolt - a stress-raiser, I'd guess - and a weld had failed on the cross-brace (my
fault, that one). I'm not sure if the broken weld started the fracture, or vice-versa. The stays on the other mudguard are showing no signs of
cracking, so maybe the failed weld led to the fracture.
Ah well, at least I got it home in one piece - just need to weld it back together again...
Ho hum...
David
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ch1ll1
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| posted on 10/7/07 at 07:29 PM |
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WHY is it always the n/s wing
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 10/7/07 at 07:58 PM |
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My n/s wing stay has broken 3 times now. Making some heavyweight items.
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locogeoff
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| posted on 10/7/07 at 08:03 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by ch1ll1
WHY is it always the n/s wing
Not done any research on this but is it not the case that the road has more potholes near the kerb than in the middle of the road?
hence more shocks and therefore failures
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bimbleuk
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| posted on 10/7/07 at 08:09 PM |
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Funny you should mention about the rougher road surface on the N/S. Just what I was thinking on my last drive out.
My supplied stay also kept breaking on the N/S till I changed the design.
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bigrich
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| posted on 10/7/07 at 09:02 PM |
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also only had a n/s failure very strange
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Fozzie
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| posted on 10/7/07 at 09:04 PM |
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Mine was the off side wing (2005)........(just to be different).....but then hitting a pot hole at speed.....didn't help.... 
Took the opportunity to get some new wrap-around wings from MNR, and design a completely new style wing stay and fixing method..... 
Two years on from the BCMC initiation and all is well....so far!
Fozzie 
'Racing is Life!...anything before or after is just waiting'....Steve McQueen
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kipper
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| posted on 10/7/07 at 09:14 PM |
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flying wings
I have both sides break but twice on the near side. I am now looking for a better design. Any suggestions? standard cortina set up, a drawing would be
good
Kipper.
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Agriv8
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| posted on 11/7/07 at 07:03 AM |
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I hope to have some MNR ones fitted ( when i change from sierra uprights to 'tina one's ) I will be fitting the MNR Ones. But it requires
access to 30k's worth of tube bender so not really a home build job.
Regards
Agriv8
Taller than your average Guy !
Management is like a tree of monkeys. - Those at the top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. BUT Those at the bottom look up and see a
tree full of a*seholes .............
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ned
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| posted on 11/7/07 at 07:13 AM |
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As a more general thing I've noticed wear on the n/s first on items I've recently had to replace on my tintop - lower wishbone bushes,
balljoints, tre's for example. The n/s is bumpier, usually subsidence by the kerb, potholes, drains and sometimes manholes being on the kerbside
is my suspicion.
ho hum.
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
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locoboy
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| posted on 11/7/07 at 08:03 AM |
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Just to be different mine was an offside
Shame it broke on the way to the Cheshire show a few years back and then a photo of my car appeared in 'which Kit' with the missing cycle
wing - great eh!
had to take this photo oportunity when i stopped off en route to meet the other lads in the garden centre car park though.
 
360
ATB
Locoboy
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Fozzie
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| posted on 11/7/07 at 08:28 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by locoboy
Just to be different mine was an offside
Read my post FOUR posts above yours!
Fozzie
'Racing is Life!...anything before or after is just waiting'....Steve McQueen
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locoboy
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| posted on 11/7/07 at 01:53 PM |
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There are none above mine
ATB
Locoboy
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 11/7/07 at 02:47 PM |
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The problem is that the mudguards are quite heavy, but can only be supported on one side by quite narrow bars. I'd guess that the only sure
solution is to fit clamshell wings - but I don't like them.
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ch1ll1
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| posted on 12/7/07 at 05:54 PM |
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BROKE both sides many of times but n/s more
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 12/7/07 at 06:08 PM |
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See my new topic - here.
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