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One of the most common bike hacks you will see on the streets of Gotham are custom fenders. I have been a pretty big fan of modifying water bottles for fender use for some time. I covered one such a hack in a previous post featuring this first method of fending off road grime. Simply cut some bottles in half and zip tie them to your seat tube.
Another bit of creativity involves a reflector bracket, water bottle, and hanger. For this one I drilled a hole in the water bottle cap and bolted it through the rear reflector braket, cut the bottle in half, zip tied the two halves together to make it longer, and then gave it rigidity by giving it a metal hanger spine connected with duct tape and zip ties.
Plastic buckets are a common site as featured in this photo. This guy actually hacked down a rear rack to the bare essentials and then bolted the cut bucket to the top.
One of the most common fenders used by delivery riders involves hacked mail bins. If these things are considered federal property, the FBI could arrest half of the delivery cyclists in the city. I took this one with my camera phone so it’s not that clear, but it simply involves chopping a mail bin up and using some string to anchor it on.
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Filed Under: commuting, modification
5 comments for this entry ↓
1 Joshua // Apr 13, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Sweet!
I really like the looks of the bucket/rack fender.
Nice post!
2 Mike // Apr 13, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Great hacks!
I think you could combine the simplicity of the water bottle fender with the sturdiness of the bucket version–cut the bucket as shown, but leave some of the bottom on. Drill a hole in the bottom and bolt it to the reflector bracket.
Think it would work?
3 Joshua // Apr 14, 2008 at 6:27 am
I think it would. I’m considering putting a piece of bucket on my rear rack (similar to the picture, but just bolting it to the bottom, between tire and rack, and leaving the rack intact), then bending an angle in another piece of bucket and bolting it to the back of the first, to add some more fender splatter grime protection.
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