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[Dominic Clegg]

no down aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[steve41]

Kev,

Good to meet you and all the rest of the guys.

No problems in listing weight of bike, all credit needs to go to Rattler. For the record the bike had a heavier tank than when Rattler run it, plastic monster one, and about 6 litres of fuel in it at the time.

I think his consultation fee's could be a bit hefty thou!!!

See you all at Snetterton with a gearbox that selects gears!!!!!

Cheers Steve

[chris.p]

Originally Posted by steve41

Kev,

Good to meet you and all the rest of the guys.

No problems in listing weight of bike, all credit needs to go to Rattler. For the record the bike had a heavier tank than when Rattler run it, plastic monster one, and about 6 litres of fuel in it at the time.

I think his consultation fee's could be a bit hefty thou!!!

See you all at Snetterton with a gearbox that selects gears!!!!!

Cheers Steve

http://www.theresults.co.uk/theresul...sults_0328.pdf



Chris

[bradders]

interesting stuff, cant believe the difference between the bikes!! 30 kilos

[WhiteWizard]

Originally Posted by DRR007

You can add mine to the list aswell kev. And anyone who can offer any advice to get mine down from 180kg to 150kg would be appreciated.

Remove the amount of wood from under your seat, there's half a seventies sideboard under there, could have sold it at the sunday market
You got a mini bar under there?
(Plus we probably put 10kg of stickers on, on Sat morning )

No probs wi posting my weight, and thanks for the whole weighing thing Skids, its interesting to know.

Great to meet all you guys (and Gals)

[Rattler]

Originally Posted by steve41

Kev,

..................No problems in listing weight of bike, all credit needs to go to Rattler. For the record the bike had a heavier tank than when Rattler run it, plastic monster one, and about 6 litres of fuel in it at the time.

I think his consultation fee's could be a bit hefty thou!!!

See you all at Snetterton with a gearbox that selects gears!!!!!

Cheers Steve

I did get quite obsessed about reducing her weight its true. I was fortunate enough to be able to strip the bike right down and build her up from scratch and was able to remove anything that wasn't needed.

Some ideas:
- go through the bike and get rid of parts you don't need.
- Only use steel bolts if its load bearing otherwise use plastic bolts or cable ties.
- Do you need to fit washers? (these obviously spread the load in certain places), or can you just use loctite?
- use cable-ties to secure parts to frame (dump mounting brackets)
- Do you need a battery box?
- Do you need a rear hugger, a chain guard, plastic shields, etc?
- fit a steel tank
- Make sure you've got very light clipon bars
- Only fit a nose and belly fairing, and make those minimal
- don't fit crash bungs, what do you save?
- use really light faring brackets and make them as small as possible
- any bolt threads that go through a nut (and protrude through) are not needed - cut the ends off - loctite.
- dump the airfilter

For the seriously commited (all of us!!)
- get a 2-1 exhaust and get as much Ti in it as you can.
- use a 600SS frame (I didn't), these are the lightest frame eligible in DD.
- use a single disk/caliper
- make sure you just carry enough fuel to get through the race, measure and calibrate (but you do need 2ltrs at the end of the race for ACU rules though).
- get light leathers, helmet (X-lite?) etc...

- you could remove all paint from the wheels and frame too.... more weight to save!!

Finally, before you race, cut your nails, pluck your eyebrows, take a dump, blow your nose and have a w**k,

Enjoy.
Tim

[Ghost]

Originally Posted by Rattler

Finally, before you race, cut your nails, pluck your eyebrows, take a dump, blow your nose and have a w**k,Enjoy.
Tim

Excellent PMSL

[Gbyte666]

Why do you think I'm so skinny

Craig

[bradders]

all the w**king!!

[skidlids]

Originally Posted by Rattler

- you could remove all paint from the wheels and frame too.... more weight to save!!

Tim you did gret job on yout old bike and its credit to you, Steve has a plastic tnk fitted at the moment (borrowed) as he couldn't get on with the taller SS Tank so it could have weighed less when you raced it.

As for the removal of paint from the fram, does sliding it along the track and into a gravel trap do a good job or would taking it to a proper sand blasting place be better