Bicycle wheel shroud

A wheel shroud for substantially covering and enclosing a spoked portion of a bicycle wheel comprising:

• a pair of identical shroud members sized to engage opposite sides of a spoked portion of a wheel such that said spoked portion is enclosed within an interior portion of said shroud formed by said shroud members, each of said members being frusto-conical in shape and having a central aperture for receiving a wheel hub therethrough, an outer periphery sized to extend to a wheel rim and including a peripheral ridge, a valve stem opening formed adjacent to said outer periphery, said opening including a U-shaped portion and a radially outward portion having a notch shaped to allow a rectilinear valve stem to extend therethrough and terminate in said opening such that access is available to said valve stem from both sides of said bicycle wheel and a reinforcing rib extending inwardly from a periphery of said opening and shaped to cooperate with said rib of an opposing one of said shroud members to form a through passage having a substantially closed wall to prevent contaminants from entering said interior portion, and a plurality of integral recesses positioned such that said recesses of one of said pair of shroud members are in registry with said recesses of the other of said shroud members, said recesses having bottom walls shaped such that said bottom walls of opposing recesses abut, when said shroud is mounted on a wheel, to form spacer elements spacing said shroud members an appropriate distance apart;
• a plurality of fasteners joining said shroud members together, each of said fasteners including a bolt extending through one pair of said opposing bottom walls and a nut threaded on said bolt;
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• at least one reflector having a hole therethrough sized to receive one of said bolts for attachment of said reflector to one of said shroud elements, said reflector having an arcuate radial outer surface shaped to engage said ridge and thereby prevent rotation of said reflector relative to an associated one of said shroud members.