Hood front wings

[peterw]

Hi all, As i am getting close to fixing the front wings to the Hood, does anyone know the best way of fixing them on, I don't want to us bolts etc through the GRP wing. I was originally thinking about fibreglass under the wings and around the tubular supports but now am leaning towards an adhesive system. Any thoughts ??
Pete

[paintman]

I'm changing my wings in the summer and intend to bond captive bolts to the underside with matting, as the current wings have cracked the gelcoat around the fixing bolts.

  Tony

['Mendip Wurzel']

GBSC glue them these days. I have heard of glued ones coming as they get a real hammering from the front suspension. I suppose its how well you glue them. Mine are glued but I also ended up pop riveting them and have little plastic cover to finish them off that I got from Backwell hardware shop. I didn't trust the glue.

Wallnut is an expert on front wings that fall off...

Kevin

[paintman]

They were off more than on last year......ha ha 

[YellaBelly]

I've not done mine yet, but apparently a lot of people use Sikaflex or similar or fibreglass over the supports under the wings. Not sure how I'm going to do mine yet but I am thiniking of trying that first.

If you do a search on cycle wings on the LCB site http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/ you should find plenty of reading.

JB