V4Chris's Bike

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Re: V4Chris's Bike

Post by V4Chris » Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:54 pm

Paul&Jax wrote:awesome looking bike mate, and great website went through the whole site! are you a website designer? would like to try one myself so any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks for the compliments ;) I'm not a trained website designer, just picked it up as I went along, like a lot of things. My advice is to always start simple, learn the basics of html and then add other things where you need. Don't try anything fancy to start with and expect it to work :)
nampus wrote:You have serious skills!!! The carbon is amazing!
The way you explain how you do it makes it sound so easy. Is it expensive to make stuff out of carbon yourself? The resin and the carbon itself, the release wax and stuff like that?
Could you give an estimate on how much it would cost to get the materials to make something like a front fender?
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It is expensive, the fabric and resin being the biggest factors, but then there are also lots of extra costs associated with the production such as tools and other materials.
To make one front fender (i.e. buy materials, buy tools, make mould, vacuum bag setup {optional}, finishing, etc) will probably cost a lotmore than buying one in a shop.


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Seat is now finished, just need some new tyres, exhaust and MOT and I'm away.....

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Re: V4Chris's Bike

Post by Spike16 » Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:11 pm

nice bike, how long til you get some bst carbon wheels then? ;) you know its got to be done!

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Re: V4Chris's Bike

Post by V4Chris » Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:27 pm

Spike16 wrote:nice bike, how long til you get some bst carbon wheels then? ;) you know its got to be done!
hmmmm, i wonder how they make them....

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Re: V4Chris's Bike

Post by spooky » Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:58 pm

Awesome!!! Mate.
\That wee smilie can drink some Guinness. No wonder he's yellow.

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Re: V4Chris's Bike

Post by mruehl34 » Thu Nov 06, 2008 7:34 am

good, nooo great work.!
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Re: V4Chris's Bike

Post by jjakaalbinoboy » Mon Oct 26, 2009 6:16 pm

Bloody brilliant! You reckon you could make the stuff for an NC29 too???
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