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You know all those election signs and real estate signs you see stuck all over the place? They’re all made of some stuff called coroplast, or corrugated plastic. Coroplast is to corrugated plastic as Kleenex is to tissue. That is, it’s trademarked, but because of its success it has become a genericized trademark. Ok, enough with the history lesson.
If you’re a little short on funds, you can hack some pretty nice fenders out of coroplast. The stuff is easy to work with, weather resistant, and in abundant supply. Kent Peterson (blog) has a killer tutorial for crafting your own fenders from coroplast.
The basic idea is to scavenge a coroplast sign, cut a bunch of 24-inch strips from the sign (some 2 inchers and some 1 inchers). The smaller strips are your fender stays and the larger strips are the actual fenders. Test out the positioning of the strips, trim out what needs to be trimmed, then secure everything with zip ties.
This is the height of bike hacking and I love it. Kent’s also got a killer tutorial on building panniers from coroplast as well!
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1 JoelGuelph // Jan 24, 2008 at 8:12 am
I have made these myself, based on his tutorial. They are awesome. I too his tutorial as a guide, using his stitching idea and modified it for my own bike. I have a rear rack, so I used an old bolt and attached it to the rack as well.
Highly recommended!
2 FixedXorBroken // Jan 24, 2008 at 9:08 am
That’s not the height of bike hacking! Check out this:
http://fixedxorbroken.blogspot.com/2007/10/bamboo-bike-how-to.html
The old steel tubes were replaced with bamboo to make a much lighter bike. I think I shaved 3 or 4 pounds.
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