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Re: [YMTC]: Reversible Bumbers Rules
We also did a vertical seam in 2014. The bumper assemblies were two C shapes, and the end of the bumper fabric that was movable was tucked into a 1/4" gap in the bumper, where it had velcro holding it in place as well as friction.
This year we did a horizontal seam and a one piece bumper assembly, and used bungee cord in a loop to keep all sides either up or down. This had one unexpected failure mode where the end of a bungee did get caught in our drive train one match. We now zip tie it up, and have to cut the zip ties every time we are blue, but it works well.
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