Make your own Bike Sweat Guard

If you do a lot of indoor riding, where you use your outdoor bike on a trainer, you may have had issues with sweat dripping on the top tube or even into the head tube bearings.

There's an easy fix, and even though there are several commercial products available under various names that may include words like: guard, net and even "thong", you can make one yourself with items you may already have around the house.

This Instructable will show how to turn an old arm warmer into a perfectly functional sweat guard. If you don't have an old arm warmer, you could use the "leg" cut from and old pair of tights or any other elastic material that will repel or deflect the sweat.

Step 1 Materials and Tools

Materials
1 x Arm warmer (or a length of similar elastic material)
3 x Velcro cables fasteners (I had some left over from a cabling project but a small package of straps costs ~$3)

Tools
Scissors

The arm warmer actually wasn't in bad shape, but it's partner had been chewed on by our miniature dachshund and that arm warmer is the cover for the steadicam arm in my Instructable: Updated Bicycle mounted steadicam