Chain guard extension

[Delphisa]

Having found sometimes a few grease particules onto the rear carrier (where my wife holds her hands...) I tried the following bricolage to reduce grease projections over rear of the bike :


To make this, I used some rubbish I found in my garage : a thin piece of black PVC (0.6 mm), and an aluminum plate, 2 mm thick:





Once assembled with a bolt and nylstop nut, it looks like this: (I also put a double-sided adhesive layer between the aluminum and PVC tab)





Not sure it will be really efficient, but it should capture a part of the flying grease - I hope so !

Jean-Pierre

 

[shdwghst457_imp]

Clever!

 

[Papa Weeley_imp]

Very nice! Thanks for the share!

 

[wayne van horn_imp]

I have the same problem, I guess honda saved $1 dollar in plactices to make the chain guard 6 more inches longer!

 

[Ridem32_imp]

Nice looks like it should work fine. I would try it out on a few rides and see the results. Then I would replace the bolt with a black rivet

 

[Greg_imp]

My solution is to not use grease, but that looks okay!

 

[AzBob_imp]

This thread was worth it just to see "bricolage" used in a sentence.

What chain lubricant do you normally use? I use the Pro Honda Chain Lube with Moly stuff and I don't think I've ever had any fling anywhere. At least not up high enough to hit the rear carrier where it would be noticed.

 

[Houtman_imp]

I use the Honda one and no flying off any where.
Over the years I have found that the Honda products for cleaning and lubricating are very good.

 

[Ridem32_imp]

AzBob: I saw the word bricolage but thought it was something Delphisa just made up. I did not want to say nuttin to hurt his feeling lol

 

[Papa Weeley_imp]

Whatever lube the factory/dealer used on my chain is making a mess. I've got a thick, tacky, Vaseline-like covering all over my rear wheel.

 

[Cormanus]

What a lovely word 'bricolage' is! I had to look it up. My tablet tried to tell me it should be 'bricklayer'!

 

[Rocky_imp]

Cool mod

 

[AzBob_imp]

Whatever lube the factory/dealer used on my chain is making a mess. I've got a thick, tacky, Vaseline-like covering all over my rear wheel.

My dealer used some sort of heavy-weight white grease/wax stuff (that also flung all over my rear wheel) that was taking me nearly an hour to remove until I figured out that brake cleaner removed it almost instantly (including from the wheel). Before I tried the brake cleaner (a Honda product, no less), I looked up to see if it would harm the o-rings or anything, and didn't see anything, so that's my go-to stuff for cleaning chains now. I used to use Simple Green, but that took a while.

In case anyone is interested, it's this stuff: Pardon Our Interruption

It doesn't stink to high-heaven, either, which is good.