Bicycle Mechanics - Chainstay Protection

Hello

I saw something recently online that you put over your chainstay to protect it but I cant remember where I saw it.
Does anyone know what this product is called?


Thanks!

It's called a Lizard Skin Chainstay protector. It's a neoprene (wetsuit material) product with hook and loop (velcro) that you wrap around the chainstay. There are like 4 different sizes and different colors too! http://www.pricepoint.com/detail.htm?stylepkey=11169&detailName=Lizard%20Skins%20Chain%20Stay%20Jumbo%20&style_id=075%20LIZCS8&dept_id=&deptName=&sub_id=&subName=&lprice=7.98&hprice=7.98

L8R

Here's a better link: http://www.jensonusa.com/store/product.aspx?i=FR707Y00

L8R

Is this what you mean?

http://www.lizardskins.com/index.html

It's called a Lizard Skin Chainstay protector. It's a neoprene (wetsuit material) product with hook and loop (velcro) that you wrap around the chainstay. There are like 4 different sizes and different colors too! http://www.pricepoint.com/detail.htm?stylepkey=11169&detailName=Lizard%20Skins%20Chain%20Stay%20Jumbo%20&style_id=075%20LIZCS8&dept_id=&deptName=&sub_id=&subName=&lprice=7.98&hprice=7.98

L8R


BINGO! That was it!

Thanks!!!!

The product I use is called an old inner tube. Just take a length of inner tube, slit it down its length, wrap around the chainstay and zip tie it in place.

Works great and you can't beat the price.

A Piece of water suppy hose works nicely as well especially if it's the clear stuff.

14 buckazoids for a little piece of neoprene with a line of velcro down the side? 14 bucks will buy a set of new cables for my beater bike. Or a set a new brake pads. 14 bucks might even get me a coolmax skullcap. No way I'm gonna waste it on a tiny scrap of wetsuit material when a free piece of innertube will do the job better.

ewitz some of us dont go chasing bumpers for cash every season...

You guys are so cheap. To save a few dollars you are willing to throgh any old trash on your bike.

I'll keep my carbon stays in better shape and won't have old trash hanging off my bike for the $14 price of a chainstay protector.

What else do you recycle? Old condoms?I'll start spending instead of thinking as soon as you start bankrolling me, until such time you can take your pithy comments as to my supposed cheapness and shove them somewhere dark and stinky.


Btw the word is spelled T_H_R_O_W

You guys are so cheap. To save a few dollars you are willing to throgh any old trash on your bike.

I'll keep my carbon stays in better shape and won't have old trash hanging off my bike for the $14 price of a chainstay protector.

What else do you recycle? Old condoms?


It's not OLD trash if you use NEW rubber rim tape, like I do....
Sorry, I must not have as much money as you do, maybe I spend it more wisely. I think your condoms comment was not only rude, but pretty d@#* innapropriate as well. What reason do you have to be pissed off?

That rim tape looks pretty good. I noticed on my new ride it has some sort of clear mylar or something like that? And my old tourer has what looks like a crome tape. My new ride has carbon stays so I like the clear stuff. Looks pretty...

The product I use is called an old inner tube. Just take a length of inner tube, slit it down its length, wrap around the chainstay and zip tie it in place.

Works great and you can't beat the price.


I used an old inner tube on my mountain bike too, but I did not slit it open. I just wrapped it tightly and held it on the chainstay with electrical tape. It worked exceedingly well, and has held up to a lot of moisture and mud. I'll post a pic when I get one.

Depending upon the bike, I've used a variety of treatments. For a dark colored mountain bike, I too used the wrapped, not slitted innertube approach.

One roadie got the treatment using some nice colorful bar wrap over a layer of carpet tape. Held up pretty good, for a season or two of riding.

For the Blue and Orange Lemond, I picked up a couple of rolls of colored electrical tape and weaved a nice pattern down the chainstay. This did nessecitate the temporary removal of the rear cabling. And a couple beers.





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When you guys say you used the inner tubes without slitting it open, was this on bikes where the cables are routed over the top tube (top-pull deraillers?) I don't have that much room under my cable routing, I don't think. A couple of beers, that's funny.

I use electrical spiral wrap. It's a plastic tube cut in a spiral for protectin cable assemblies. Secure the ends with electrical tape. $5 gets about 10 feet at Radio Shack, or Home Depot.

I use electrical spiral wrap. It's a plastic tube cut in a spiral for protectin cable assemblies. Secure the ends with electrical tape. $5 gets about 10 feet at Radio Shack, or Home Depot.

Never thought of that one. Clever.

When you guys say you used the inner tubes without slitting it open, was this on bikes where the cables are routed over the top tube (top-pull deraillers?) I don't have that much room under my cable routing, I don't think. A couple of beers, that's funny.

Should have been a bit clearer. I didn't slit the tube lengthwise and wrap the chainstay like a hotdog in a bun. I slit the tube into a nice long strip and wrapped it like it was bar tape.

One time I actually planned far enough ahead that I slipped a length of housing onto the deraillier cable, which allowed me a little more freedom in wrapping, similar to cables on the handlebar.

Must have been a beer free day, that one.

When you guys say you used the inner tubes without slitting it open, was this on bikes where the cables are routed over the top tube (top-pull deraillers?) I don't have that much room under my cable routing, I don't think. A couple of beers, that's funny.

Yes, my bike's derailleur cables run over the top tube, then down the seat stay. I like the idea of the bar wrap and the electrical tape. The advantage of the electrical tape, is that for a quick fix, you could patch it up without rewrapping the entire stay. What kind of bike are you putting this on? The one in your picture?

On my bighit I use an old DH tire - cut the bead off and secure with zip ties. Looks a little sinister, and is very quiet. It's nice to actually use some of my spent parts for a new purpose rather than spending money and contributing to landfills. And if somone thinks that is cheap, they are a snob. A yuppy snob (yuck, the worst kind).

Yes, my bike's derailleur cables run over the top tube, then down the seat stay. I like the idea of the bar wrap and the electrical tape. The advantage of the electrical tape, is that for a quick fix, you could patch it up without rewrapping the entire stay. What kind of bike are you putting this on? The one in your picture?

Well, I'm keeping what I have on the bike above, no reason to switch it out. That rubber rim tape runs me $.50 each, and I use it for my rims, for the chainstay, and for handlebar wrap. If I want something a little thicker on the handlebars, I do what dobber does and slit the tube longways in half twice, two sections. Each section is enough to wrap one side of many different types of handlebars, then plug. I actually like it better than cork, cloth, or foam, especially in bad weather (doesn't get dirty and yucky)!!!

Like sscyco said as well, finding a new use for old stuff, or recycling/conservation, is a real good thing!

Actualy, ewitz, I prefer to spend my 14 bucks on condoms and using the old innertube on the bike. A lot better than the other way round. Geddit?

It's not OLD trash if you use NEW rubber rim tape, like I do....

Not bad, but I can't tell from the picture... how have you fastened it at the upper end to keep it from unraveling?

I use the adhesive backed WTB foam rubber chainstay protectors on all 7 of my bikes, it never falls off, always looks good and does a great job of keeping the chain stay in good shape.

For my MTBs, I use old grips and zip tie them in place... cheap ;)

for the roadbike, I use this... Shimano Deore XT Shark fin
I like the way it looks.. It looks sleek and fast... :)

for the roadbike, I use this... Shimano Deore XT Shark fin
I like the way it looks.. It looks sleek and fast... :)

But doesn't that produce an unbalanced aerodynamic drag? You'd have to mount another on the other side to counter-balance the forces.

If you got one of those turbo-spoke dealies, you be stylin.





All kidding aside, never seen those. And if I did, I'd probably snatch a couple. But only the Dura-Ace carbon fiber ones.

Well, I'm keeping what I have on the bike above, no reason to switch it out. That rubber rim tape runs me $.50 each, and I use it for my rims, for the chainstay, and for handlebar wrap. If I want something a little thicker on the handlebars, I do what dobber does and slit the tube longways in half twice, two sections. Each section is enough to wrap one side of many different types of handlebars, then plug. I actually like it better than cork, cloth, or foam, especially in bad weather (doesn't get dirty and yucky)!!!

Like sscyco said as well, finding a new use for old stuff, or recycling/conservation, is a real good thing!


Yeah, I like the look of your rim tape. My inner tube wrap is not quite as neat, but it does the job. I've tried the inner tubes as bar tape before, and I noticed it left a lot of rubber on my hands. Do you guys wash down the rubber before you use it, or do you just wear gloves?

Here is a pic of my chainstay wrap. I held it on with electrical tape. You can see a bit of damage from chainsuck in front of the wrap.

$14.00 for Lizard Skins? WOW I paid $6.00 for mine at a local bike shop. Where the heck do you guy's live?

$14.00 for Lizard Skins? WOW I paid $6.00 for mine at a local bike shop. Where the heck do you guy's live?

EastBumbleF**k. I have to do most everything online. Hence the recycling and skinflint approaches.

What else do you recycle? Old condoms?

Yes. You just turn them inside out and shake the F$%# out of them.

I call it "black electrical tape." Some call it a chainstay protector, others call it chainstay guard. Goes on easy, comes off easy; cheap and easy to use. Function over fashion. Of course, a lizard skin will serve the same purpose, but will remove more $$ from you wallet.
Rock on!

Electrical tape also comes in nice fashion colors if you want to color coordinate with your paint job or bar tape. Costs a bit more than the standard black stuff, but a roll will probably wrap 10 or more chainstays so there would be no reason to have ratty looking old tape on the bike.