Ugly or Cool? Thermoplastic bumper + Mouldable Clay pads

[ClementTo]

So what do you guys think? Is this ugly or cool?

Instead of throwing away the stock pads/bumper, and spending $300+ on aftermarket pads and bumpers, I decided to try Thermoplastic and Mouldable Clay to build on my Extreme’s existing pads and customize to my legs.

All for a cool $45 Canadian

[Punxatawneyjoe]

6 hours ago, ClementTo said:

So what do you guys think?

no

[MacGyverCanada]

7 hours ago, ClementTo said:

Is this ugly or cool?

[Funky]

Or is the real question. 

It looks like you fell in cow pie.  

[Funky]

Most important - if you like it - that's what matters.

Don't care what others think.  

[MacGyverCanada]

Looks good ≠ works well

[on one]

bad ass, cool as hell

[bpong]

kudos to getting that amount of protection for only $45 !!!  however,  if you or a friend of yours has a dremel tool,  you should use it to go over your hand formed bumpers and smooth it out abit just to eliminate the rough edges and indents and such.

alternatively,  if you had the time,  you could have made moulds for the bumpers and then press the plastic into those moulds and they would have come out very clean in appearance too !!!  just saying....

[sbb]

13 hours ago, ClementTo said:

Is this ugly or cool?

What bpong said!

[ClementTo]

On 8/22/2024 at 1:06 PM, sbb said:

What bpong said!

Haha totally, I’m actually actively working on it still. The foam clay in the first photo was still flowing like a hot wax and not formed at all 😂 maybe I shouldn’t have got so excited (50% I didn’t even think it was gonna work) and shared the version 0.5 😛.

this is now version 0.7, with all the pressure points from Begode’s hard foams covered and rides like butter now 😁

*thanks bpong!

[Scubadragonsan]

Is that the batter for baking a wheel pie? I wonder what it would taste like. I guess, when we crash, we'll know!

Edited August 24 by Scubadragonsan