Best place for quality carbon?
 

opinions please on the best supplier/manufacturer of quality well priced carbon?

hmmm bit difficult that good quality and price.
I found that tec moto did very good carbon in pre peg.
Don't know how they are doing now though as there has been some talk on this site about a change of owners

Just bought some stuff off Streamline - very good quality and price, 10% discount to DSC members.

http://www.streamlinecarbon.com/

Casoli Moto in East Barnet

Anyone bought carbon from the major ebay advertiser at the moment? Trading under the name dixo-carbon.

I have bought stuff (not carbon) from www.carbonworld.de in germany they have proved good with everything i have had

Lots of posts on the big list re Dixo. Some regarding delays.

I have just had a single seat from Sandbar Composites, They import Ilmberger stuff. Top, top, quailty.

Rgds, Rob

Dixo have a really bad reputation amongst the Yanks on Speedzilla at the moment. Personally I wouldn't touch them with the proverbial barge pole.

Darren

[Edited on 9-11-2004 by FiscusFish]

Ripsnorting V-twin is a guy a few of us have dealt with on here

Try this link

Tell him Yella mentioned him to you.

For a race bike, the best carbon fiber component is the one that has the least weight so the manufacturer should use the minimum amount of resin and no clear-coat to save weight. Unfortunately, this also results in pinholes in the surface and a somewhat dull finish. You may even be able to see light through it in some areas.

However, for a street bike, a nice appearance is a more important concern than weight savings, so fit and finish is essential.

In terms of overall appearance, carbon fiber made by Carbon Dream is widely regarded as the best product. They use prepreg carbon fiber and a autoclave instead of a cheaper wet lay-up process used by other manufactures. Their products are quite expensive.

http://www.carbondream.it/menue.html

The other major manufacturers are Casoli, QB Carbon, Ducati Performance, Sebimoto and Carbotech. I believe Motowheels carries the line of carbon fiber manufactured by the supplier to Ducati Performance.

hey what about these www.carbon-trader.com

Nah, rips your man

Firstly let me apologise if this post seems a bit self-serving!

As the UK agent and distibutor for Ilmberger I think that I might have a little insight into this subject.

One of the problems is that a lot of people selling parts these days ( and this particularly applies to carbon fibre) source their parts from different places and different manufacturers. This often means that they do not have any control over the manufacturing process and therefore quality can, and does, change. A prime example is Ducati Performance.

Here comes the self-serving bit!!

A lot of the parts that I import and sell are the parts that DP used to sell, until they changed their supplier. They are made by the same people in the same factory (MS Productions) using the same methods as before. Obviously I keep a check on the competition and in my opinion most of the parts being sold as DP at the moment are considerably inferior to the ones that they used to sell.

It is an easy comparison for me to do. I just compare my product with one of theirs. Three recent ones I compared (at a main dealer)were 999 fairing flaps, Multistrada hugger and 998/996/916/748 hugger. Fit and finish are not even similar and as for price.............!

I am told that DP have e-mailed all the dealers to say that they are no longer supplying huggers or airtubes for the 998/996/916/748 range. The rumour is that they have had so many problems with the fit and quality that they have decided that it is no longer worth the trouble. That means that any that are at the dealers will be from the products that caused the trouble

Anyhow on a lighter note: the original post in this thread mentioned price.

Yesterday the Web Team were sent a list of the items that I have in the 'END OF SEASON SALE'. I sent it to them in the hope that there might be some way of having them post (or allow me to post) it onto the forum to give DSC members a chance before I mail shot the dealers.

Another self-serving bit!!

Then you really could get the best quality at the lowest price. Up to 51% off (and that is off MY prices - let alone off the normal DP prices)

Sandbar
aka Sandbar Composites Ltd

Sandbar

How much do you charge for freight to NZ...

I'm getting raped from Oz. So the UK can't be much worse. I'm after a carbon front guard for 749/999

I will need to check.

Price in the sale is £120 inc our VAT so I guess that sending it to you would not need VAT(I need to check that as well) and so it would be £102.13

I will post an answer later today

Thanks for reply.

Sandbar

Sandbar.

That sound's sweet. Any pic's etc????

Look forward to a reply

sbwells

I hope that this works. This should be a picture of the front of the Ilmberger 'Sound of Thunder' and 'Battle of the twins' 999S



Sandbar

sandbar, can you mail an item list and prices to jhayward@fsmail.net
cheers:burn:

JJ, see my post "Quality Carbon......"

Sandbar,

have sent you U2U.

Cheers, Neil

sbwells wrote

The freight to NZ would be £17.00 for air mail. Delivery approximately one week and it would be insured and would require a signature on delivery.

If you want to go ahead with it then e-mail me on nigel@sandbarcomposites.co.uk with your telephone number and I will call you to arrange details.

Regards

Sandbar

Full details of the Sandbar offer to club members and contact details are now shown as a news item on the home page.

GREAT NEWS........ I have had an offer of a "money-off" voucher, from Sandbar to include with our Pronto December 2004 "Xmas give-away", which can be used for regular products or those in the Sale!

Check you have renewed your subs.......

p.s. many more goodies on offer too !

SA