OT:Fleecing, grasping companies

[GB]

Surely it's an extrusion?

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Plastic deformation; and don't call me Shirley.

[Titus Aduxass]

The dogshit? I suppose you could call it that.

[Andy Dingley]

Only if you're talking about injection moulding. Mudguards should be vac-formable for very low cost.

Otherwise find dustbins / washing up bowls or garden pond liners and saw out a ready-moulded section.

[Jethro_uk]

for the wary:

's the 2nd picture: "Mudguard Fixe"

[John Williamson]

For a smallish run, I'd expect that to be fibreglass.

They seem to be carbon fibre, for some reason, which would explain the cost.

[Jules Richardson]

That's in case the user accidentally finds themselves on the track during a formula 1 race, and needs to get out of the way pronto.

[Nightjar]

I would not have thought them a suitable shape for vacuum forming, unless they had a very limited arc of effect.

Colin Bignell

[The Natural Philosopher]

You would be surprised.

Remember there is only one really big axis to cope with.

vacform runs into shit when you need a 3D shape - mudguards are really

2D and a bit.