Bumper Question

Competition Rules/Strategy
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I hope I explain this so you will have an idea of what I am talking about, so here it goes:

We are looking to make a cover for our bumpers. We have our bumpers already made in red and we are looking at making blue covers, my question is can we use velcro to go around the frame as well as the bumper. It will not be visible but the cover will be secured with elastic and the velcro will be used wrap around the frame.

Here is a segment from the rule book:

must attach to the Frame Perimeter of the Robot with a rigid fastening system to form a tight, robust connection to the main structure/frame (e.g. not attached with Velcro). The attachment system must be designed to withstand vigorous game play. All removable fasteners (e.g. bolts, locking pins, pip-pins, etc.) will be considered part of the Bumpers.

Our bumpers themselves will be secured with nuts and bolts to the frame, we are just concerned about the covers.

Any help would be appreciated, you guys and gals rock!!

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team 1836 has used velcro to attach the other color covering to the bumper. It should be legal, as long as you use strong enough velcro. Last year when we did this, we had a problem of the covering not covering the whole other color. So if you make sure that all of the red is covered, and the velcro doesn’t peel of during a match, you should be fine.

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Awesome and we will be sure to use strong velcro as well as cover the other color totally.

Thank you for the reply MICHAELABICK, much appreciated!

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One more question. Will we be able to attach black velcro to our red bumper. The black would show when we don’t have our blue covers on is that acceptable.

Here is a picture of our robot. As you can see the frame is above our bumper making it hard to get behind the top portion and the velcro would be attached on the top of the bumper towards the frame.