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Title: Freshly Completed Tyre Armour
Post by: Bacon Miller 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:
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/149/6/a/Completed_Tyre_Armour_by_Laser_Toast.jpg)
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. ^_^

Title: Re: Freshly Completed Tyre Armour
Post by: spawnyb on May 29, 2010, 06:45:54 PM

Very nice. Looking good.

Title: Re: Freshly Completed Tyre Armour
Post by: Bacon Miller 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.

Title: Re: Freshly Completed Tyre Armour
Post by: spawnyb 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

Title: Re: Freshly Completed Tyre Armour
Post by: FunkyCowie 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

Title: Re: Freshly Completed Tyre Armour
Post by: Jason on May 29, 2010, 09:17:07 PM

Nice job

That should protect em  :Csmile:

Jason  :Hoofies2: :CGEEK:

Title: Re: Freshly Completed Tyre Armour
Post by: Bacon Miller 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

Title: Re: Freshly Completed Tyre Armour
Post by: FunkyCowie 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.

Title: Re: Freshly Completed Tyre Armour
Post by: Bacon Miller 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

Title: Re: Freshly Completed Tyre Armour
Post by: Jason 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:

Title: Re: Freshly Completed Tyre Armour
Post by: Bacon Miller on May 30, 2010, 07:07:59 PM

Haha. :D