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Offline Bacon Miller

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Freshly Completed Tyre Armour
« on: May 29, 2010, 05:47:11 PM »
Hey, guys.
Since was my birthday yesterday, I finally got a pair of M90+ and they're great! Of course, the spring simply had to be protected, so I went to town today and bought 2 26" mountain bike tyres, some tools and some shoe lace. Result:

I think they're great, although it took a couple hours to make - not bad either considering it's pouring down with rain anyway! :)
Hopefully the weather tomorrow is nice and I can get some more practice. ^_^
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Offline spawnyb

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Re: Freshly Completed Tyre Armour
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2010, 06:45:54 PM »
Very nice. Looking good.
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Hmmmmmmm........Why did I buy these again?!?!?!?

Offline Bacon Miller

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Re: Freshly Completed Tyre Armour
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2010, 07:49:21 PM »
Cheers, but my fingertips are sore now. :P Rubber is hard to punch through, even with a belt puncher.
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Offline spawnyb

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Re: Freshly Completed Tyre Armour
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2010, 08:37:21 PM »
Yeah I know. I used a normal paper hole punch on mine to help with the leverage. Lol
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Offline FunkyCowie

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Re: Freshly Completed Tyre Armour
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2010, 08:37:57 PM »
why 2 26" tyres?

I managed to do mine with one and had left over for a set of tyre socks :D
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Offline Jason

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Re: Freshly Completed Tyre Armour
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2010, 09:17:07 PM »
Nice job

That should protect em  :Csmile:

Jason  :Hoofies2: :CGEEK:
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Offline Bacon Miller

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Re: Freshly Completed Tyre Armour
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2010, 10:08:33 PM »
FunkyCowie, I bought 2 tyres just to make sure I had enough to spare. Which, I did (I had some left over from the first tyre!). Never fear though, because I've now got a spare 26" mountain bike tyre that I can use for something else. :D
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Offline FunkyCowie

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Re: Freshly Completed Tyre Armour
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2010, 11:50:48 AM »
I actually bought two as well thinking I needed two from reading someone else's post  :Claugh:

So my other one is going to be used as tyre socks, after my first attempt I found they slide to the right or left when in use and I have to keep kicking them into position by standing on one leg, so next set I make I need to incorporate a way of holding them in place using the side wall which I had cut off my first set.
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Offline Bacon Miller

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Re: Freshly Completed Tyre Armour
« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2010, 12:28:53 PM »
Haha. :D Well in other news the weather is nice and I can now walk unaided. ^_^ I walked upto the park and got some very strange looks :P
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Offline Jason

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Re: Freshly Completed Tyre Armour
« Reply #9 on: May 30, 2010, 07:06:03 PM »
This sounds like my neighbour  :Cbiggrin:

He asked me how many rolls of wallpaper I bought to paper my hallway

I said 10

He came back a week later and said that he had only used 8 and had two left over

Funny that so did I  :Claugh:

I wonder why he hit me  :Cbiggrin:

Jason  :Hoofies2: :CGEEK:
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Offline Bacon Miller

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Re: Freshly Completed Tyre Armour
« Reply #10 on: May 30, 2010, 07:07:59 PM »
Haha. :D
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