I did a lockdown ride with my mate yesterday. Lockdown means riding local so it's a cross country ride on bridleways rather than forest. Nothing challenging except lots of thick sticky mud.
My mate found he had a piece of the battery bash guard missing when he cleaned the bike. There was nothing on that ride to suggest he hit anything with the bash guard.
My theory is that due to the craggy mud a small stick or stone got stuck in the gap between the bash guard and the battery cable plug.....that was then leveled out by the crank or his foot on the pedal and snapped off the section of bash guard you can see in the photo below.
I have a neoprene cover over the plug and that gap on my bike.....it keeps the battery plug clean but unintentionally also guards against that sort of damage.
My mate found he had a piece of the battery bash guard missing when he cleaned the bike. There was nothing on that ride to suggest he hit anything with the bash guard.
My theory is that due to the craggy mud a small stick or stone got stuck in the gap between the bash guard and the battery cable plug.....that was then leveled out by the crank or his foot on the pedal and snapped off the section of bash guard you can see in the photo below.
I have a neoprene cover over the plug and that gap on my bike.....it keeps the battery plug clean but unintentionally also guards against that sort of damage.
