| A friend of mine manufactures wet lay up carbon for a variety of retailers and they make 2 grades of parts, race which is iether carbon only or light thin glassfibre or road which is carbon with a backing of chopped glass fibre which is there to prevent cracking at mounting points etc or fa far heavier grade of glassfibre. This is the result of many years experience inc working for the harris brothers making bodywork for their 500 gp bike, most race fairings do not last long enough to show signs of fatigue etc but if you paid hundreds of pounds for a carbon fairing and it fell apart after 6 months you would be pretty annoyed! Their is also the problem with product liability as a detatched 916 fairing side could do a lot of damage to a pedestrian etc.
I am not trying to defend casoli but thought I could explainn why some manufacturers use a glass backing.
dave
[Edited on 15-9-2004 by DAVE HARRIS] | 
15-Sep-2004, 14:47 
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