detachable mudguard

I got a bit tired of applying and removing the duct tape for my "mark 1" mudguard (mainly because rain has been so sporadic but that's changed now) and so I decided to mung up one that's operable more permanently and conveniently.

basically its just a piece of plastic (from an empty 2L plastic milk bottle) which I cut to a shape, then put some duct tape over it to make it "black" and then affixed it with self adhesive velcro.

Loop side on the flap to keep it from getting clogged:

hook side under the guard

Make sure the underside of the guard is cleaned first.

The easiest way to make sure its all "aligned" is to put the two parts of velcro onto the flap, take off the adhesive cover paper and put it in place. Press firmly...

...  make sure that the adhesive has taken, then just rip off the mudguard.

Done

Cost breakdown:

• milk bottle (fished out of the kitchen bin) = $0.00
• velcro ($2.5 / 1.5 meters = 60c / meter, used 3cm) = about a cent
• duct tape ($4 /  30 meters = $0.13 / mete, used about a quater of  a meter) = about 3 cents

and people want to buy this sort of thing from eBay and pay $15 for it.

hmmm