forget kashimax, roll your own
 

1. go to the hardware store and buy a foot of clear, 1" tubing (cost you about a buck).
2. slice the tubing lengthwise
3. place tubing on your toptube (it'll stick by itself)
4. profit!

OR

4. take the money you saved by not buying a kashimax and spend it on beer and pie.

BEERPIE!

(nice work dolface!)

I used the extra wide rubber band that came with my cane creek headset. cut it, then wrapped it around a few times. then a couple loops of some electrical tape. it's been on there about a year and I think the rubber band has fused it's self together. all I know is it ain't coming off with-out leaving a mess.

Forget top tube protectors, tape your bars.

you're saying you want [165] should cover up those gorgeous 36's!?

blasphemer!!

Why did I think this thread was going to be about cereal?

And why did I think this thread was going to be about the Five Gold saddle? Sitting on it is not unlike sitting on tubing.

Well, yeah. Is it a bike or a fashion show?




;)

But the Kashimax top tube protector is only $39.99. Can you really put a price on top tube protection? Yes you can and fortunately for all of us, Kashimax already has. Ride into the future proudly knowing that the ebay resale of your bike won't be damaged by obligatory aesthetic and structural badmouthing in the fixed/SS for sale thread.

I smell a "DIY" sticky thread somewhere in the future...

impossible. that'll add at least 150 grams to my bike...

um, so whadja slice with? boxcutter?

alternately, tape your TT

You could always take some extra t-shirts that wont fit in your dresser anyways, cut them up and wrap 'em around. :D

I thought the top tube was where inner tubes went when they died?

as a matter o' fact, i did...

i don't like cluttered top tubes. if i did ride drops--which i don't because they suck--i'd put grips on to prevent dinging. did i say that i think drops suck?

i'm not sure... i was too busy thinking about how ugly bullhorns are on any bike but a pursuit frame... :eek:

personally i'm a fan of bar tape which matches your, well..., bar tape.
even better if you do it for a chainstay protector too.

Whether you like top tube protectors or not, I think we can all agree dolface has found a good alternative to kashimax protectors. Waydago dolface.

Very nice - will have to remember this trick.

Nice! I think it's perfect solution for protecting your top tube from getting scratched, scuffed, and dinged when parking your bike. Does that only happen to me?? Every single scratch my De Rosa has on the top tube has come from my lock, or somebody trying to fit their bike on the same parking meter, or the frame getting knocked against a meter.

Russian beer

http://beer.artcon.ru/pavel_egorov/old_ussr/sva0701.jpg

Is your room always a mess or did you open your underwear drawer on purpose for the photo?

Enjoy

you call that a mess!?

My two cents (and my old pursuit style, Tange 1, ParkPre street/track bike) from a FGG thread.

http://hometown.aol.com/f1apex/myhomepage/howto.html