Chainguard

Gonna make a chainguard out of ally, brushed or mirror stainless for my RRW. There's two brackets to use but one is miles above the chain! Can you guys suggest a suitable shape n brackets?

gotta ask...why bother?

just grind off the lugs and it'll look much cleaner than a guard imho

You dont need one for an MOT either

nickyboy wrote:You dont need one for an MOT either

Since when?

For ages. Ive not had a chain guard on the 3 years. Its an advisory not a fail

Depends on the bike, like on these blades the tail is over the line of chain so you can get away with it with an advisory.

Try MOT'ing a FSIE without a chain guard and she'll not go through.

Got my MOT without a chainguard on Thursday. Guy said the cops might not be impressed. I know the brace would catch a broken chain and the original is as much use as a chocolate fireguard, but I wanted one!
Made my first attempt at a chainguard. Eventually decided to get rid of the top bracket and use the rivnut in the front of the arm.

Had some 1" stainless and some 1/2" for brackets, polished em up a bit and bolted em together for now, final version will be TIG welded with no bolts or holes!

Cleaned up the arm with a Roloc sanding pad in my angle grinder and bolted up the guard;


Whadya reckon?

That IMO is a great idea Megawilly, that one piecer will stop all the chain lube splashing into every nook and cranny moreso on footwear.

Think you've done a great job Mega, well done, looks great.

Thanks gents, do you think it needs radiusing around the sprocket?

Don't think it 'needs' it, looks great as is, will look good whatever.

Thanks mate, new hugger next! Gonna make an alloy one similar to a 954 hugger, bolted to arm brace !

megawatt wrote:Thanks mate, new hugger next! Gonna make an alloy one similar to a 954 hugger, bolted to arm brace !

Don't fancy making a carbon hugger?

The idea was that the one piece would be more practical than Hondas attempt to contain splash back. If the edges were rolled over a tad it should be even more effective, looks are a big issue with SF's and sure you can make it look the DOGS.

May try it next. Hugger may get carbon skin treatment or I'll use mirror stainless. Alloy first for ease of forming and drilling! Should blend in with arm n brace too?

It'll certainly blend in Al.

How about this alloy hugger with alloy or stainless chainguards?[img:bf46]http://[/img]

I think if you use a metal hugger it will take away the look of the swinging arm, personally I'd prefer it carbon or colour matched to the new paintwork.

megawatt wrote:How about this alloy hugger with alloy or stainless chainguards?[img:18c5]http://[/img]

Nice work so far alan!

To be honest I think those are quite sharp lines on the hugger & guard, I think I would make the lines a bit more rounded to stay in keeping with the rest of the lines of the bike & I worry that if you leave the hunger in polished alloy it'll make the swinger look huge BUT that's just me....

The best advice I could ever give anyone when making one off stuff for there bike is to do it there way as it's your bike & your vision if ya know what I mean?

I'll make it out of ally and see how it blends or otherwise with the arm or paintwork. I have two aerosol cans the same colour as paintwork, so I may see what it looks like then or even in black. All your ideas much appreciated gents!

theres far too many conflicting angles in amongst all that

looks confused!

maybe start with the hugger and take some angle's from whatever you build. that way it will look like its been designed rather than a few bits of random metal bolt ons.

a mixture of top and bottom lines from the hugger, replicated on the chain guard. and rather than introduce the horizontal lines...go with the same lines/angle as the bottom of the hugger

should look better then

maybe the bottom line of the hugger should mimic the same angle as the lower arm brace?

Some good ideas there RB, I'll have a go during the week.

Any updates? love the chain guard BTW,, will you make a hugger for the swinger as well? 

No updates mate. Been riding it when I can. Gonna have a go at the hugger soon and redesign a chainguard.

hehe...same here,,been busy on the blade lol

Would an R1 hugger fit on top of that over brace Alan?

As far as a chain guard goes, chuck it away and stop talking so ghey

Gonna make an ally one when I get time. Still thinkin about another chainguard.

Ally one would look good and very one off

Will deffo be nicer than a combined hugger/chainguard. If it looks good, I'll make a mirror stainless one as well!!!