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02-25-2008, 09:56 PM
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Using Carbon Fiber fabric as fabric?
Is it possible to use carbon fiber fabric without resin as fabric for covering my motorcycle seat? I think that might be pretty cool to wrap the seat with the dry carbon look...
Any thoughts? 
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02-25-2008, 10:44 PM
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you can do it, but i think it'll be too loose of a weave and also be to brittle to handle any kind of wear and tear... it'd work if it was a show bike though... lol
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02-26-2008, 08:50 AM
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wouldn't it be flaky and not nice feeling like fiberglass without any resin to hold it all together? I probably should know considering im an engineer, but I dont work much with cf or fiberglass......
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02-26-2008, 09:10 AM
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I personally don't think it would work too well without some sort of resin, even if its a very small amount.
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02-26-2008, 09:28 AM
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I guess I could use some resin on one side and none on the other. IE put resin on the seat and then put the carbon fabric on.
Jim- it's for my rear seat which is never used...Right now I have fabric on it, and I might pick new fabric this year, but I was going to see if I could do it with carbon fabric...
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02-26-2008, 09:31 AM
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isn't the whole point of the resin to give the CF strength and rigidity? So wouldn't a small amount of resin give the CF just enough stiffness to keep it's form, but crack/shatter as soon as some weight is put on it?
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02-26-2008, 09:38 AM
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Yeah I said right before you posted that its for my rear seat which is never used... I took off my rear pegs, and I don't ever have anyone ride on the back...
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02-26-2008, 09:39 AM
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id think it would look nice, but it seems like it wont hold up to regular riding. itll rip up.
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02-26-2008, 09:53 AM
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