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Originally Posted by Jonny042
Hi Lukas, nice to hear from you!
Summer was good to me, and did indeed involve some new carbon fibre!!! I spent a good share of our short season riding, training, and racing in the Local Cross Country series. I was pleased to, if nothing else, manage to improve my finishing place from dead last to actually beating a number of people and even reaching the level most would consider mediocre, instead of totally pathetic! LOL.
All in good fun, of course. This bike is incredible. Stock, it's 25.26 pounds without pedals, the carbon frame alone, WITH rear shock, is 1910 grams. Of course I have some lightweight parts to put on it, including a cassette that has aluminum and titanium gears that will save 100 grams :P
More on the car stuff later. Just as I was getting back into the swing of it, my vacuum pump stopped vacuuming! Not before I was able to make a few parts, luckily: |
Sounds like a good time, and nice to spend some time outdoors in the warm season, plenty of time to wrench during the long winters up north! Are you still into trials riding as well? I'm getting more and more into hard enduro now on a 300 2-stroke, and thought about getting a trials bike to train the technical skillset better.
To be more on topic, here is an idea for some nice weight savings (probably a few pounds compared to the stock fluid reservoir your car came with?), without removing functionality / usability / street legality of the car.
C6B81D65-B7DE-4D96-B854-9E5DE2F8519A_1_105_c by
lukas.matzinger, on Flickr
These fit very neatly on the left strut tower, in existing factory holes:
Unfortunately the reservoir itself is not available to buy new any more, but I have a spare that would go well with the Carbon Copy.
Cheers,
Lukas