Just made a 250R skid plate

[ric]

Hi Guys

Please give me your thoughts on this. I just finished making a swing arm skid plate, just used normal fibreglass for the first one to see how it comes out. Looks pretty good however I don't know how the fibreglass will stand up to a real beating. Could be a good thing for someone who is just restoring an ATC250r and not wanting to destroy it too much. I just layed up a "Carbon Fibre" plate to see how it looks, pretty neat I think, however with carbon fibre being $60 per metre I don't know if it will sell. Used about 1/2 a metre plus resin on the first one.
Anyway, your thoughts would be appreciated.

[hoser]

Looks real nice lmao

[Aussieduner]

Awesome Ric !

Aussie

[hotroddal]

so is that hand fabricated using your fingers or did you take the original and just like pore thaat stuff into the original kinda like a mold, thats kinda cool i like it

[bigredhead]

you have to vaccum it using sealed bags and all that ****.. it's not easy from what i've seen before..

the price is relevant. i think you could sell those on e-bay.. explain material cost and it's all relevant.. LIGHT WEIGHT !!!! and STRONG !

[AZ250R]

Looks cool, who cares how it works if ya can sell em... more power to ya!
boy does that sound bad, but hey looks are alomst everything to some.

[ric]

Thanks for your input guys. I just pulled the Carbon Fibre plate out of the mould, looks pretty good, just have to touch up a few spots where the resin was a bit thin.
No vac bags, I just made a mould off a NOS plate, layed it up by hand. Haven't done any carbon fibre work before so this is a new experience for me. I'm gonna stick this one up on ebay and see if there is any interest. Here is a pic of the carbon fibre version.

[BigGreenMachine]

Thats pretty slick. If it is strong then hell yeah theres a market for it.

[hoser]

Show us a pic after you hit it with a big like hititng a rock.

Last I heard/seen fiberglass or CF breaks pretty easy I bet the CF skid will break like a vforce reed under the slightest impact.... just my opinion

[hrc85250r]

im betting that he didnt make it as thin as a carbon reed...duh....but i do hope that he used a few layers of fiberglass with a final layer of carbon, because the carbon will def snap easily, it needs to be reinforced with at least 2 or 3 good thick layers of fiberglass first, if you dont want to use carbon for all of it.....

[ric]

You are kind of correct, Carbon Fibre is not the most suitable for impact, but then I didn't really have in mind impact damage when I made this, I kind of figured this is an asthetic accessory and would probably appeal to the rider who is more into looks than aggressive riding.
However I can easily make these out of kevlar, no problem, just doesn't have the same visual impact as carbon fibre.
In the layup of this one I used 2 layers of 175gm Carbon Fibre, and sandwiched one layer of 160gm surfboard woven cloth in between, I think I will bulk up the next one with some more surfboard cloth, should make it just about right.

[bigredhead]

Would be good for the dunes !!!