Lal Bikes

The derailleur guard is about as high as a brake rotor and people don’t smack their brake rotor too often, but regardless, we figured it would be fun to impact test the derailleur guard. Most of the swing arm is hollow tubes but this part is solid carbon. With Jacob’s help, intern Aidan designed and built a fixture for holding a swing arm half. We used a scrap swing arm half from our climbing of the carbon learning curve. We might add a stainless steel skid plate to the derailleur guard just for people’s peace of mind, but it was nice to see what the derailleur guard can handle.
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