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.....

More to come again.....

Finally on its wheels and looking like a bike...




At this point it was sent up to a carbon supplier/manufacturer in Scotland. 6/8 weeks later it was due to have a self supporting seat unit and full fairing...

6 Months later... No bodywork and 3 irate customers wanting kits, after they were so impressed with the mock up they paid for kits in full!



As you can see... Almost nothing had been done and now it was sent to Derbyshire to another company to make the moulds.... By now I was not looking forward to sending the moulds to the original company to make the kits and now because the original supplier had "SORTED" with the customers directly to make a monocoque seat/tank unit... Not in my original plan but I decided what the hell...

So now we had to blend the original fuel tank into my seat unit...





Next the fairing....

Started my first ever pre-preg lay up......




My FIRST ever part..



I then moved on to do the rest of the kit...

Finally getting there.....





More as I get it done.... But as you can see.. I have decided to drop the supplier and do all the work myself.......

Great work what pre preg are you using from prf. 

It was a sample I tried when I made my first ever part..... I now use VTF but I am trying some from PRF next week for a different job for a customer... Seems I now have another job making parts not just building bikes.... haha...

I will let you know how it goes.... But at the moment VTF is the best material for cosmetic pre-preg..

I made my first monocoque sub frame 3 years ago,so I no how much work goes into it,that was for gsxr1000 k2,I just bought 03 r1,which is starting to follow similar path this time trying to ride rather than turn into a full project bike,Ive only just realised how John Britten was so talented,I think when he was using carbon he did not have any vaccum equipment,just wet lay up pretty impressive.