> Anybody ever put a strip of rubber or tape around the stays to protect 'em?
I use sections of thornproof inner-tubes to wrap around stays I am going to clamp something onto or, for that matter, other parts of the frame - another example is kick/prop-stands.
Seems like a good use of thornproofs to me, I don't like 'em as inner-tubes!
Alan Lloyd
Schaumburg, Illinois, U.S.A.