but I might give the Trice a go on PBP. If that happens - I'm building a [luggage] tailbox, for sure.
Ok, so I don't always follow things through, but I have forced myself to keep my word this time.....being on the wagon helps.
Finished the tailbox today....PBP next Sunday!!!
For those interested in real basic kitchen table carbon fibre layup then I've taken some photos of the build sequence. There is no explanation text, but it's kind of obvious how I've knocked this up. I think.
I have some carbon cloth, and three batches of laminating resin with a view to building a bike. It hasn't happened [I got close].
The resin is about 10 yrs old....so I wondered about it's integrity, but I 'think' it's ok. I made the wheel arch first as a separate item, then the first bit of the main shell then bonded the two together, and built it up from there.
I followed no plan, no dimensions and had idea what I was doing. Make it up as you go along kind of thing. I have a shed at the back of a Butchers Shop, and there is loads of cardboard knocking around from meat deliveries, so I figured I may as well make use of it. That, and about 4 cans of expanding foam.
TailboxIt's real basic stuff. The main draw back with this very basic wet layup is the lack of proper compression of the laminate and getting all the epoxy out. Carbon fibre done like this can get heavy with too much epoxy floating around. But I don't have access to vacuum bagging right now, so it is what it is.
But, running it round the car park today, I think it will work. I'll take another look after the 1200km of PBP!!
It struck me a few days ago, that changing a visitation in the rear could prove to be somewhat of a pita on a trike, so I made a
simple wheel stand out of some 40mm waste pipe wrapped in carbon [photos a bit milky...need to clean phone].
I don't think I'm going to regret making this.