John Bolton - June 06, 2018


Kydex saved my Jeffsy frame.


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2 minutes

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445

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I was riding in Kananasis country yesterday and got hit by rocks about the size of a baseball. I built a double-pitched protection for my bottom, underneath my bottom bracket and part of my down tube. It works perfectly.

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00:00:00.800 Hello fellow Jeffsie owners. This is John in Calgary Alberta. Yesterday I was
00:00:06.520 riding in Kananasis country which is just a little southwest and west of
00:00:10.120 Calgary along a very fast and wide trail but lots of rocks and small well I guess
00:00:16.380 half the size of a regular baseball on this trail and I just wanted to show
00:00:22.360 you something that happened. I built this double pieced protector for my bottom
00:00:27.960 underneath my bottom bracket and part of my down tube. This is made out of kydex.
00:00:32.040 I did this a little while back. I had some troubles with the original pieces if
00:00:36.880 you're going to do something like this. Try not to do too many turns and curves
00:00:40.480 at the same time. So I built this double one and I used some pretty heavy duty
00:00:45.220 velcro straps to put it on. I used a dremel tool to cut some slots and it stays on
00:00:48.840 there. It doesn't move. I can remove it easily and clean underneath it and I'll
00:00:53.280 probably make another one in the future that's one piece but I'm happy with this
00:00:56.960 but you can see here. I know that you can see right here. Hopefully you can see
00:01:01.120 that. I heard a couple of times where rocks came up and hit underneath my
00:01:06.780 bottom bracket. Some people say the Jeffsie throws up a lot of rocks. Well
00:01:09.640 look it. You can see right here there's that dent right in there. That's from one
00:01:15.080 of those rocks yesterday and it is visibly dinged really hard and the kydex
00:01:21.380 took it all in. I had this off recently. Just took off and cleaned my bike. I got
00:01:24.920 pretty muddy. No marks underneath at all on the bike. So I would suggest you build
00:01:29.780 something like this. You can buy the kydex depending on where you live. I live in
00:01:33.120 Canada. It's about 25 bucks for a piece 12 by 12. Again try not to do too many
00:01:36.980 turns and curves at the same time. This worked perfectly. I'm going to leave it
00:01:41.260 on there. I actually have some special rubberized tape under here too that kind
00:01:45.800 of makes it stick and I have used some invisible like the invisible shield on here.
00:01:50.360 I made my own. I did a 3M. I put the 3M protection tape on my whole bike which is
00:01:55.760 is great for cleaning it because you don't have to worry about damaging the frame or
00:01:59.140 anything but you can see that ding right there. I would suggest you put one of
00:02:03.600 these on your bike because it hit hard a couple of times yesterday and there's the
00:02:08.020 proof.