I hope photos can say more than I can.... So much to say so I hope the photos are enough...
I bought an Aprilia RS250 off eBay for a trackday bike..It had been a right off so I didnt expect it to be really nice.. But it was... So it would have been a crime to use it on track and trash perfectly good new genuine bodywork.. So I decided to change the bikes shape totally.....

Here is the bike just after I bought it...


Work starts...





More in the next post.....

What you said on the phone makes sense now. Nice prepreg work!

BTW I spoke to Crispin from PRF last week, he's got low temp 200g prepreg on the 464 system which he can impregnate only on one side. He reckons it approaches VTF. He's meant to be sending samples down.

Cool... I have to get some for another customer project... The irony is I was asked to make the part by our mutual friend.. He sent me a mould "Not a great mould but it is a test part and if the guy is not happy I will make another one"  It was less then not great...lol.. The top mould is one I sorted out and the lower one is one I was sent! It looks like it had 100 pulls from it but it only ever had one and even after 6 coats of sealer and 6 more of release it stuck! You can see where sanded through the gel coat and it was rough because he painted the part to get a good surface on it and the paint stuck inside the mould and had to be sanded off!

Now you see why even when the parts were sent to Vic to be moulded I was reluctant to let him make my kits... He talked a good kit but I never saw an actual part then I was handed this mould to work from... He even had the cheek to tell the customer it was not good due and it was my fault... But looking at the mould and it being 20mm too narrow would have made it a miracle if it was good enough for his customer... Now I have been asked to do the work directly as the guy had paid him almost £1800 for that awful mould and a crappy part...




So next week I am trying the 464 carbon in this new mould...