Cutting Mudguard Stays

[youngoldbloke]

How about using a cutting torch? (Best to mark the position of cut and remove stays from bike before doing this).

 

[Gerry Attrick]

I suppose we are lucky around here. There is a steelworks in Scunthorpe which produces heavy rod. We can always get them to put our stays through the shearing machine.

Oh yes, they are petty enough to get us to remove them from our bikes first.

 

[brodie]

1, cut with junior hacksaw.

2, smooth with file.

Don't bother with the plastic caps, just cut to the correct length, ie they don't stick out..

 

[briank]

Take them off the bike again? It's bad enough to get the buggers on in the first place.
Grip the excess with a pair of mole/vice grips, use the edge of the jaws as a guide for the hacksaw and when you're half way through use the leverage of the grips to bend/break the excess off. Less than 60 secs per stay.

 

[Plax]

You guys do know that I have actually managed to cut my mudguard stays now don't you. Well, I took them to my dad for him to do it with an angle grinder.

EDIT - Only three pages long on my screen!

 

[youngoldbloke]

You guys do know that I have actually managed to cut my mudguard stays now don't you. Well, I took them to my dad for him to do it with an angle grinder.

EDIT - Only three pages long on my screen!

Trouble is we don't all have access to your dad!
On my screen we are now on page 6 - Why is that?

 

[TheDoctor]

You can change the number of posts displayed per page - it's on your Profile somewhere...

 

[youngoldbloke]

You can change the number of posts displayed per page - it's on your Profile somewhere...

- thanks for that - I appear to be using the default setting, but one could choose to display 100 posts per page, in which case we wouldn't even have reached page 2 yet!
- enough ..........

 

[HJ]

But thread has had 1,165+ views....

 

[TheDoctor]

Plax's mudgaurds are well worth looking at.
I had a very lengthy view of them as they pulled away from me up Llanberis Pass...

 

[raindog]

But thread has had 1,165+ views....

So, let's see, how many stays have now been cut since the thread was started......?

 

[Amanda P]

Plax's mudgaurds are well worth looking at.
I had a very lengthy view of them as they pulled away from me up Llanberis Pass...

What we want to know is: were you impressed with the quality and neatness of the cuts in the stays? If not, do you think they would have been better if they'd been cut using some other method?

We need to know!

 

[jann71]

After attempting to cut mine with hacksaw, metal cutters etc. I got my brothers friend who is a blacksmith to cut them for me. It was either that or buy a dremel! Now that they are on the bike they are staying on

 

[TheDoctor]

Well, she hadn't cut them when I saw them, but I could see they needed cutting.

 

[Amanda P]

Well, she hadn't cut them when I saw them, but I could see they needed cutting.

And yet you thought her mudguards were worth looking at...

Are we into euphemisms here again?