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Probably Hitlers trick part BUT this is worth seeing twice.

Credit to this goes to tygaboy on the San Fransisco Bay Area Riders Forum
Original thread is Here

Class build, and I would encourage anyone to go and skim through the whole writeup. You will be reading a while but it is a cool read. I will hopefully be trying some composite work of my own soon :cool:

http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/fo...-pa010014b.jpg

http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/fo...5-pa140002.jpg

http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/fo...2-pa140004.jpg

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that looks good cheers YC

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That is superb

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Someone on the CBR forum just bought some carbon fairing for a bargain £300 :cool:

I wish I had the money to buy them lol

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h29/cbrjay/fair3.jpg

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h29/cbrjay/fair2.jpg

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h29/cbrjay/fair1.jpg

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h29/cbrjay/fair5.jpg

The picture the bloke posted of them fitted is quite disturbing, but amazing at the same time.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...R/IMG_0219.jpg

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Now he just needs to get them painted! ;)

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They look nice, i dnt think they need painting, but he does need to get rid of the pillion foot pegs

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This was in the thread too...looks awesome!

http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/fo...9-pc140010.jpg

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Aye that is from tygaboys SV-agusta type project. Also very cool.

http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/fo...d.php?t=173852

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That word makes it far less cool!

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Doesn't look like a tank! so does it just aadd weight? or does the CBR need a tank cover?

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Tygaboy, that dude is awesome.

I read all of his stuff some time ago, pure inspiration.

It a shame he doesn't post as much over at BARF, I think he is busy elsewhere with his business. But what he has written is everything you need. He also has a few vids on YouTube from the CF party's he held. Again its very useful stuff though I can't find the links at the moment.

I've been wanting to try my hand at this for a while now, so if you do start keep me posted. What I really need to do is find a suitable UK supplier...

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http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/fo...-pa010014b.jpg

where are the mounting luggs?

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The CBR has a plastic tank cover

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Thanks, that's what I thought, so it's basically for show. CF not being substantially lighter than plastic?

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600rr fully carboned up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dgig-MFs2g

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Attached a few posts later.

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Tank cover is fairly essential as it covers the ecu and a crap load of other stuff.

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that is obscene. I love it.

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Chav!

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However, if weight is the key - bang for buck, I'd just go on a feckin diet!

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Indeed Lol ... I did that and lost 2 stone over winter :cool:

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Exactly! You'd have to 'carbon-fibre-ise' the whole bike and then some to get the same weight saving!

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or at least make sure you have a big poo/don't have a big meal before riding your bike

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Have you ever weighed poo? (it doesn't weigh that much :wink:) So you would have to be pretty backed up down there for it give a real perfomance advantage :p

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no, surprisingly i haven't :-). i wonder how much/what you'd have to carbon-fibre-ise to make the same weight saving as a poo....

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You know, I think they should come up with a rating system for carbon fibre add-ons based on poo savings. At least then you could "weigh up" whether to spend the money on CF or nip off to the loo instead. :D

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The carbon thing has got to be less it more though IMO the tank in CF is awsome but if I were to have lowers/nose cone etc then I dont think I could stomach the whole lot as CF.

That tank with half and half is very very nice.

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:lol: sorry just reading luke and sarah's posts...
Yeah love the tank, wouldn't want a whole CF bike though.

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One of the nice things about having a tank cover is that it is relatively cheap to get a cover without having to make the entire thing petrol tight etc.

I like the air-tubes and cover on our NC35 but they are purely cosmetic[1].
http://www.fastdruid.co.uk/albums/NC...80DSC05380.JPG

Druid

[1] The carbon-fibre tubes weigh more than the plastic ones!

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Clearly someone has never met my dog :rolleyes:

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It is mainly water though, once dried out and set, it is barely heavy enough to use as a paper weight. :smt107







You need a good handful first. For the full wet look effect though, a good coat of lacquer should be applied too. :salut:

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Make that 2 people who have never met my dog :cool:

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Surely it's a similar weight to all the food you eat? :???:

Apart from the mass that is converted into energy

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Mass can't be converted into energy unless his dog functions on some sort of high energy atomic annihilation reaction? E = mc^2 and all that

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Yeah he eats an awful lot too

Hmmm. No. :smt043

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What about ATP into ADP? Burning of sugar as fuel to release energy...

Also another type of Carbon Joy :drink:

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We don't feed him sugar. He suffers enough from ADD as it is.

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Normal reaction, mass is conserved

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So where does the energy come from? Is it just a miracle? :confused:

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Forming of bonds between molecules as I understand it. Past that I've no idea, talk to a physicist!