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Hi everyone.
First time I'm writing on this forum, but I've been here before multiple times searching for info about gen4.
I thought I may add short story of my project for those that may be interested in such stuff.
I build a track bike of road damaged gen4, that is basically stock bike with removed eveything that's not needed, track fairings and chinese bits. Usual track tool that I will not cry after I crash it.
The thing is I got interest in buliding carbon fiber parts when owning my previous bike. 2009 R1
Back then I wanted ultimate street bike that would be possibly light with spending not a fortune on it but my work and invention. I made from scratch carbon fiber self supporting tail that replaced oem tail frame and fairings saving several kilograms. It was also supposed to make room for undertail fuel tank. Together came some other cf parts I made from scratch. In the end I turned completly to track riding, crashed it there and replaced with zx10.
Obviuos idea over last winter was to make the same for the new bike. So here it goes.
Plan was to make the final part out of prepreg carbon this time. Before I used infusion but with gained knowledge and experience I wanted to upgrade on the technology used.
Explanation for those who do not know compostes:
Composites are made of fiber and resin. So there can be different fibers(glass, kevlar, carbon) different resins( polyester, epoxy etc.) and methods how they are joined( wet layup, vacuum infusion, prepreg)
Selection of those gives different quality and properties but also the time, amount of work and tooling needed are different so this is always deterimining the final cost. Thats if you ever are going to pay for CF parts. Not all are the same.
I used standard oem frame and track tail fairing to build a model of the complete final part and then make a mould of it.
First time I'm writing on this forum, but I've been here before multiple times searching for info about gen4.
I thought I may add short story of my project for those that may be interested in such stuff.
I build a track bike of road damaged gen4, that is basically stock bike with removed eveything that's not needed, track fairings and chinese bits. Usual track tool that I will not cry after I crash it.
The thing is I got interest in buliding carbon fiber parts when owning my previous bike. 2009 R1
Back then I wanted ultimate street bike that would be possibly light with spending not a fortune on it but my work and invention. I made from scratch carbon fiber self supporting tail that replaced oem tail frame and fairings saving several kilograms. It was also supposed to make room for undertail fuel tank. Together came some other cf parts I made from scratch. In the end I turned completly to track riding, crashed it there and replaced with zx10.
Obviuos idea over last winter was to make the same for the new bike. So here it goes.
Plan was to make the final part out of prepreg carbon this time. Before I used infusion but with gained knowledge and experience I wanted to upgrade on the technology used.
Explanation for those who do not know compostes:
Composites are made of fiber and resin. So there can be different fibers(glass, kevlar, carbon) different resins( polyester, epoxy etc.) and methods how they are joined( wet layup, vacuum infusion, prepreg)
Selection of those gives different quality and properties but also the time, amount of work and tooling needed are different so this is always deterimining the final cost. Thats if you ever are going to pay for CF parts. Not all are the same.
I used standard oem frame and track tail fairing to build a model of the complete final part and then make a mould of it.
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