Bike Wheel Spoke Protector Guard, Freewheel Spoke Protector, Plastic 4 Claws Design Transparent for Protecting the Chain Reducing the Sediment on the Flywheel

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It’s a spacer designed to convert a 10-speed cassette into a 7-speed “downhill-specific” cassette. The spacer takes up the place of the last three gears and also acts as a spoke protector.

Again, the spoke protector has other benefits like keeping the brake rotor and brake pads clean. In fact, when you find yourself asking about removing an accessory from the manufacturer, you better leave it on. The Halfords Essentials Wheel Spoke Reflectors easily clip over the spokes on your wheel to provide extra visibility to others on the road. Not only do they look great but they also improve your bikes safety! Suppose your bike’s derailleur is not set correctly. In that case, it will pull the chain laterally, which leads to misalignment and chain dropping. A bike dork disc is a bike component that you may not have heard of before now. Still, almost everyone who has owned a bike has had one at one time or another. While some know what dork discs are, other bikers do not know their purpose and importance.If you are an experienced rider or someone who regularly cleans and maintains their bike, you can remove the spoke protector if you would like. A beginner usually has a cheaper bike with cheaper parts, so if something was to go wrong, it wouldn’t cost a fortune to fix. A bike dork disc is also present on bikes to prevent the chain from hitting the spokes if it detaches from the gear. But if the chain hits the spokes, more problems can arise. This issue could also damage your:

As a result, the chain would slip and fall between the spokes and the cogs. If you were at high speed and didn’t have a dork disc, the damage to your wheel would be enormous. Someone who rides leisurely for short distances may not notice the effect of adding 100 or so grams on their bike. But, for road race cyclists, that is 100g too much. If the rider continues to pedal, the wheel will be damaged. But even if he/she immediately halts all pedaling effort, the chain will still harm the spokes because the wheel will keep on spinning due to the coasting hub. At the start, our question was whether a spoke guard is necessary. After reading this far, what do you think? Is a dork disc necessary? It’s our hope that we have convinced you to keep that disc on. In the mind of many cyclists, a spoke protector is a symbol suggesting that a bicycle is used by a nerd in flip-flops to go to a friend’s house and watch reruns of superhero movies.From a technical point of view, you shouldn’t remove the spoke protector. Furthermore, an accident can make a perfectly indexed derailleur drop the chain in. If that were ever to happen and find you without a spoke guard, the chain would completely destroy your wheel. A bike dork disc is a plastic material that protects the spokes from the chain if it suddenly slips. This way, the chain will not be able to damage the spokes and the other components of your bike. A metal spoke protector may be stylish on a retro road bike, but it looks out of place on modern bicycles. Are There Other More Sophisticated Spoke Protectors? A spoke protector could be of great help in such a scenario as it would keep the chain from reaching the spokes.