Carbon fibre question

[Mikkel]

you twit.

Uh oh, methinks something is about to go - that's right, you know it - INTERNATIONAL!

I don't think you tried very hard at all. In fact, I think you were deliberately rude and provocative. Take another look at what you said, and try it word-for-word in a pub sometime, and watch some rather large cunt smack you in the fucken head. The overt bravery of many kiwis behind the wheel and the keyboard is disgusting. I expect you are a perfectly well-behaved and polite individual in real life, not so online.

You're both right and wrong.

Yes, he's a perfectly well-behaved and polite individual in real life.
Still, he would say he'd say something along those lines if he was engaged in a discussion of the merits of adding carbon fibre to a vehicle.
The blatant honesty is very refreshing - if you can handle it, I guess.

In the end - and all due respect to the vehicle - a Hilux is a pick-up truck. It's no different from adding carbon fiber to a quad bike IMHO. Get over it!
What's next? A titanium muffler for the Massey Ferguson?

[Tank]

Take another look at what you said, and try it word-for-word in a pub sometime, and watch some rather large cunt smack you in the fucken head. The overt bravery of many kiwis behind the wheel and the keyboard is disgusting. I expect you are a perfectly well-behaved and polite individual in real life, not so online.

DB

The hyprocicy of your post Mr DangerousBastard is hilarious.

You talk about being brave behind a keyboard ... Here are some fantastic DB quotes from a single thread:

....... The hard way is to involve the media. I WILL report this, and I will do it the easy or the hard way, or the really hard way. His call.

Badge number please ?

DB

So what was your really hard way??

haha, yeah right "$150 fine lol - bring it, bitch.." see you in court. GFY! /me rides off.

pigs have no right to stop you simply for an angry dressing down on the roadside.

Sorry(sarcasm) that flashing ruins their day, but that is stiff bikkie. Get a life and go get some fucking drunk loser off the road so we can all relax, and quit picking fights they can't win.

Sharpen up, pigs. Your ability to actually assist normal law-abiding citizens is fucking piss-poor.

DB

You would say "Sharpen Up Pigs" to a police officers face - me thinks not. But you are happy to say it in a thread about Scummy..

Really ? "losers and liars ay ?" Can you pm me your officer number please.

I will take this further.


DB

We waited and waited

yup. Final request - badge number please, and the "name calling by police officer" leaves the Internet right now, or else it goes international. Your call.
.......

You are beaten this time, how does it feel ?

DB

Beaten this time???? really what happened ????

Calling someone out for bullshit is fine - but it carries more weight if you arent full of it to your eyeballs yourself.

[imdying]

I do like real carbon fibre, but overlays are a satisfactory substitute for cosmetic parts like that. I concede that on some level overlays are no less 'rice' than carbon stickers, but the (not inconsiderable) difference is, an overlay is indistinguishable from the real thing (unless you remove it from the bike).

[Tank]

I looked all last night for this bloody video - but at last I found it:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...ocidfeed&hl=en

Its a google video (not youtube - thus the problem in finding it) - I think that it will answer all your Carbon Fibre questions.

So get a mug of coffee - sit back, watch, enjoy and learn.

[imdying]

Yeah, big long bastard that one!! There's a few errors in it though, I'll have to revisit it to expand on that comment though sorry :/

/edit: Pretty sure it was just in the layup schedule, so not a worry if you're doing overlays

[98tls]

I do like real carbon fibre, but overlays are a satisfactory substitute for cosmetic parts like that. I concede that on some level overlays are no less 'rice' than carbon stickers, but the (not inconsiderable) difference is, an overlay is indistinguishable from the real thing (unless you remove it from the bike).

Got me thinking about overlaying my front guard,would the curves make it a pain in the arse?

[avgas]

In Auckland, you'll probably find that Nuplex is the easiest. Out of interest, which parts are you after?

I don't know yet - i have to admit i have no experience what so ever. Don't suppose you can buy like a for dummy demo kit with small amount of weave and some resin?

[avgas]

In the end - and all due respect to the vehicle - a Hilux is a pick-up truck. It's no different from adding carbon fiber to a quad bike IMHO. Get over it!
What's next? A titanium muffler for the Massey Ferguson?

Yes - i fail to see your point.
A zxr250 has less HP than well a David Brown - but i would still mod one.
And for the research a Massey can cost more than a lambo

[Tank]

And for the research a Massey can cost more than a lambo

But even a ugly bastard like me can get laid by hot (but shallow) chicks in a Lambo.

Come for a ride on my tractor just dosnt pull them in as well.

[Tank]

I don't know yet - i have to admit i have no experience what so ever. Don't suppose you can buy like a for dummy demo kit with small amount of weave and some resin?

I was going to look into that myself - I will pop down to the local suppliers next week when I get back from Oz.

[imdying]

Got me thinking about overlaying my front guard,would the curves make it a pain in the arse?

Not too bad, but it would be just as cheap to buy a carbon guard.

I don't know yet - i have to admit i have no experience what so ever. Don't suppose you can buy like a for dummy demo kit with small amount of weave and some resin?

Have a look here.

[huck farley]

Skidmarx I thought you had left the forum ? I don't understand a word you wrote on this topic of carbon fibre.

[Mikkel]

Yes - i fail to see your point.

I can see that...

A zxr250 has less HP than well a David Brown - but i would still mod one.
And for the research a Massey can cost more than a lambo

Well it's not about price - I thought the whole thing was quite selfexplanatory...

Carbon fibre is an expensive way to make components that are both light and strong. It's not very durable or tough compared to materials such as stainless steel - although you can get the same structural strength at a much smaller weight for a given component. However, it is more time consuming and expensive to produce than a similar stainless steel or aluminium component.

The point is of course that such technology is only really worthwhile in high level racing (motorised or otherwise) where every gram counts and your equipment only need to last one race.
This is at the very other end of the scale compared to agricultural engineering (tractors, quadbikes and hiluxes(I'm afraid)). While the equipment may be expensive enough it's designed around an entirely different concept - reliability, toughness and economy. Weight is often only a benefit for a vehicle used for towing equipment - as such forking out big dollars for a part, the purpose of which is weight saving, would be downright stupid. (Unless you really care about the bling factor of your tractor).

You with me now?

[avgas]

Come for a ride on my tractor just dosnt pull them in as well.

Your doing it wrong then, my old tractor could pull chicks.......































Hell it could pull goats, dogs, sheep, cows, tree stumps, sprayers, trailers what ever i hooked up to it it could pull lol

[avgas]

You with me now?

Yeh but its gay - usually im form above fuction but i think carbon is pretty so i use it where i can. Even got halve way through a carbon coffee table.
As for carbon on a truck - I've met a certain someone with 9 second Navara.
I guess if carbon wasn't so pretty we wouldn't have it anywhere when you think about it. Imagine it looked like bog or fibreglass - paint would be required for it.