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Don't know if anyone watched the sbs doco on The car of the Future.
There was one car that was looked at from a think tank group in the Rocky Mountains.
It is called the Hypercar made completely of Carbon Fibre, I think is was 14 or 17 snap together bits that made the entire car.
This gave the car a weight of 1/3rd of normal car mass. Powered by electric motors, of course it is still crazy expensive.

My point being that this group is talking about making our cars lighter to move around.
So all of us here who pile on the carbon bits are actually doing good for the environment by making our bikes lighter and stronger.  [clap] [clap]
Keep up the Carbon work we are doing our bit for the planet.

That makes sense doesn't it?...... ;D ;D

You must have a lot of time on your hands Matt, but you are right, not only that, but we also use less fuel, and take up less room on the road, not to mention parking







                          Mmick (isaidnottomentionparking)

jeez, i must be really good to the environment, i'm just now fitting up some magnesium marchesinis with titanium hardware onto my 888!!!
that, rarely, get's, used....... but hey, what about the parking!!! [thumbsup]



paul.

p.s, shit! i might upset that tool, tool, by spruking on about myself [bang].........oh well. ;D

I feel better now Matty, the Desmo is all c/fibre  8) Thats why i bought it for the planet [thumbsup]

See exactly....
Now I need more CF.
Wheels
Tank
Might get custom swing arm.....
Mmmmm what else?

Looking at some BST carbon fibre wheels for the desmo Shhhmick [thumbsup]

 http://www.blackstonetek.com/

I said not to metion thr par......



                                          Mmick

Nice for the S4Rs or Desmo?

For the D16RR, as it has a 16" rear and there is only one type of tyre available from one manufacture and no slicks. im told its worth a bomb to and not so good >:(

So I will be buying 17" rear and matching front so I have a choice of tyres even slicks if I like  [thumbsup]

vince sent you a pm

not only does CF make bikes lighter but it also locks up carbon and prevents it from otherwise entering the atmosphere.

Think of all that carbon that would otherwise be floating around damaging the environment.  ;)

When ???

ill send it again.

Vince...a Desmo with BST's???

O.M.F'ing.G

you need to get a Troy Lee Designs customer helmet with a crown....because THAT is king!

yeah I think one was on the way.
Something like Rossi's earlier in the year. 

Only doing it for the 17" size not for the bling Im just not like that am I (http://www.1098-forum.com/forums/images/smilies/pimp.gif)

 Who's Troy Lee bruce lee's cuss or somthing (http://www.1098-forum.com/forums/images/smilies/ninja.gif)

back to the thread...

this means that Melvin is possibly the 'greenest' most environmentally friendly on the DMF...

although there was Jim G on the old board - he had BST and a carbon tank - and everything else was black gold too!

I'll try and do my piece for the planet too! got a beautiful ignition cover last week (there you go Tool!)...

You wanna earn some _serious_ "carbon credits"?

(http://www.speedzilla.com/forums/attachments/ducati-superbikes/11413d1188945321-1036cs-ebay-4127_3.jpg)

How about a hand built carbon fiber _frame!_

(from http://www.speedzilla.com/forums/ducati-superbikes/41168-1036cs-ebay.html )

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 like this one

(http://www.blackstonetek.com/images/products/BSTFrameSub1a.jpg)

Yeh baby  [thumbsup]

yeah nice.  ;)
Saw that on the BST site.
Don't know if I'd like to see that price on it.

A company called Carbon Dream used to have a frame/swingarm/tank/bodywork kit for a 996/998, it cost about $80kUS (and that was back when the AUD bought only 50 or so US cents)...

big (and just for Tool, _I_ didn't buy it 'cause _I_ didn't have that sort of money spare ;)  )

so, dude, you've bought a desmosedici, with forged magnesium wheels in very specific sizes for very specific reasons and you're gonna mess with it? [bang]
firstly, they're FORGED MAGNESIUM!! BST's will not be lighter by more than a few ounces (if that!)
secondly, buy an R1 if you want to mess with a poorly handling fast bike, i mean really, do you think you can improve on a desmosedici?


paul.
p.s, i'm probably just very jealous [cheeky]

I wonder what bike it's for? No lower rear engine/swingarm mounts, but not 4 cylinder kind of wide across the front - maybe it's one of the Kenny Roberts RC211V motored GP bike frames? I think they made a few carbon ones before going to entirely machined from billet...

It does look sweet though, eh?

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It’s all about the fact that I can’t get the tires I feel most confident on; I’m not spending the money trying to get more performance out of the machine that is already beyond my capability by a long way.

Each stock tire is $600 each  giving a pro rider 12 odd laps so maybe give me 2 track days.

I can get top Pirellis slicks for $300 that would probably last me 6 track days . So it’s all about cost The fact that the BST are a few grams lighter could be the difference between  eating 1 aranchini or 2 on the Thursday night social meet

One guy i know has only 2000 km of street riding on his and is due for a new set

The fact I may mess with any geometry of the bike by changing the wheels will only effect a guy that can do sub 1.40 at the creek and I am far from that 

And besides there Carbon Fibre and that's what it's all about.
Buying and using Carbon Fibre to better for the Enviro creating that warm IZ_ feeling.....