timtak

As mentioned above, I am wearing out the chainstays of my carbon look (and soon Trek Madone) with the heel of my cycling shoe. I tried a carbon patch but I wore through that, so I have made a steel one to protect, initially, my right chain stay. It will or would, if I am alive that long, take a long time to wear through the steel pipe with the heel of my cycling shoe.

Here is how to make one

Chainstay Guard by Timothy Takemoto, on Flickr

Here is the finished guard

Steel Chainstay Guard by Timothy Takemoto, on Flickr

I find that my age results in wobbly flailing heels so steel chainstay guards may be useful to others. Are they on sale already I wonder. I know that there are guards to protect chain stays from chains but from old heels, I have no idea.