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Carbon downtube protector anyone?


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I've been thinking about getting a carbon downtube protector for my Echo Lite but failed to find anywhere with the correct (small) size in stock. Being the sort of person that I am I decided to just buy some carbon tubing and make one (sorry for the pants phone picture):

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It's made of 42mm ID roll wrapped carbon and obviously cut to length to suit the Echo.

The thing is I've now got a bunch more of this tube and was wondering if anyone would like one if I made them? Being roll wrapped it doesn't have the classic shiny weave on show but are just as light and should do the job just fine. I can make them any length (within reason) and have enough material to make around 9 more. I can supply a length of sticky backed Velcro to attach them if needed (that's how I've put mine on- makes it removable and also adds a little padding rather than direct contact. Diameter-wise the Echo is 44mm so the 42mm tubing fitted really nicely and if I'd cut it slightly over centre it would've popped on without any velcro or anything but that seems slightly pointless and wasteful! I would guess the tube would still work up to 45mm diameter without too much trouble.

Anyway, let me know if anyone's interested.

Edit: Better pic of it off the bike:

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