views on dirt skirts ?

[snoopy72]

A 1980 build, are they popular and well liked ? who likes them who doesn't and for what reasons , BS dirt skirt not the later SST version

[Gnarlyscoots]

Cool bit of kit 

I have them on 3 of my old school race bikes, although, cutting an innertube piece and fitting over the bottom part of the headset when building the fork into the frame was always another option 

[AKGOFF]

Got them on all my race bikes, love em. 

[snoopy72]

I also have an early beartrap 2 , this version has a larger bottom race that has a built in dirt skirt.

[Glynnyboy]

I like them.
It can add a nice bit of detail to a build .

[Bob_Acid]

They were cheap enough to buy with a bit of pocket money when we were kids so everyone had one.

[Gnarlyscoots]

I also have an early beartrap 2 , this version has a larger bottom race that has a built in dirt skirt.

Mmmmm...Gen 1 beartrap II, loviness 

dib dobs if you sell please 

[Mikku]

They were cheap enough to buy with a bit of pocket money when we were kids so everyone had one.

That's true, though for some reason the one I bought I never got round to fitting and then when I found it again a couple of years ago, I stupidly sold it on the Bay for a few quid! 

[Skratchski]

i had one of them BITD, was pence, i saw one on a website the other day, was like twenty quid or somet!! WTF!

[snoopy72]

With the early gen 1 beartrap above it won't let me fit it with the larger bottom race, got to say once it's fitted it protects the bearing from view.
I have a 2 year later beartrap 2 still with the Tange locknut but the bottom race has a standard outer diameter and the dirtskirt fits on that ok.

[dirtskirt]

I likes em i do's 

[meticulous]

I like a dirty skirt.....