Originally Posted by R. Danneskjöld
You don't get it.
If you use a lizardskin as a "stanchion guard" you dramatically increase your chances of gouging your stanchions, due to abrasives that invariably migrate between the lizardskin and the stanchions as the shock cycles.
+Umlauts. Save the money to get a pack of Phillies, a cream soda, and a spare tube to wrap your chain-side chainstay. Your stanchions will be fine, but scratched paint don't heal.