Big plastic rear wheel disc thing...

[mark barker]

Back in the late '80's/early '90's I had a Muddy Fox MTB, and the rear wheel had a disc that covered the spokes, giving the appearance of a solid wheel. (IIRC it had a large paw print picture on it)

Any ideas why they were fitted in the first place? I assume they didn't do the desired job as I haven't seen any for years...

 

[SquareDaff]

It depends - if the desired job was to blow you straight into the path of traffic then I imagine, that today anyway, they'd have done their job just fine

 

[snailracer]

Stops twigs jamming into your spokes and your chain from chewing spokes if it falls off the derailleur. These things can happen on a bumpy ATB trail.

Solid rear wheels aren't much affected by the wind, solid front ones are.

Also looked cool and was free advertising for the manufacturer.

 

[PJ79LIZARD]

They were out in the early 90's my mate had one on his rear wheel on his raleigh lizard it was a bright yellow acid house smiley face, it looked the nuts back in the day I was dead jealous my dad wouldn't let me have one for my lizard.

 

[mark barker]

Also looked cool and was free advertising for the manufacturer.

bright yellow acid house smiley face, it looked the nuts back in the day

The more I think about it, the more I want one again... and loving the sound of the smiley face one!

Off to search ebay....

 

[marzjennings]

Because at the time Tomac was the man and disked wheels were going to be the next big thing...

 

[PJ79LIZARD]

If you can still get them I'd deffinately get one for my lizard,, it would be complete at long last lol

 

[PJ79LIZARD]

A smiley face one that is!