oh. I didn’t know that was a thing. Is that an official way to gauge checker plate strength? I’ve never had checker plate on anything I’ve owned.
From personal experience I can confidently say no. And before anyone says anything , read this link
I have zero idea on strength or slip resistance. I can only share that I was first exposed to 5-bar when our club would import LR parts from the UK (1990’s). Much different and better aesthetics to diamond plate that is typical in the US.
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The fenders are aluminum, as are the supplied rivers and checker plates.
The Stockton Beach fire pics of that burned-up Grenadier suggest the fenders are aluminum. Aluminum as the bonnet and doors. i.e. melted away in a fire, unlike all the steel right next to it
I must have missed that, good point. Thanks.
As far as I know, the plates have the tape, as well as, the rivets.
I believe IG has said that the reinforced fenders themselves offer the ability to hold weight but the additon of the plates adds much more holding strength.
There was one I remember seeing a while back. I’ve tried searching for you but can’t seem to find it. Perhaps @DCPU has one. He’s got a lot of Grenny pics. As a substitute, I believe in the factory tour of, and showcase of the assembly on YT, they showed the bones of the body as it was being assembled.
The way I think about is by comparing it to building a floor in a home, where the joists are the main structure of the Gren body and the “subfloor” is the skin of the Gren. As an extreme example, if cardboard is used as the subfloor and you step on it, your foot is going to go through. If you use plywood, it can now hold hundreds of pounds depending on how thick it is.
That makes sense - good analogy.
