Velomobile Carboniziation


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carbonfibreworks
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Looks interesting, like the horn in the first image, it may have been better placed outside Smile. What was the estimated weight saving  ?
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Surprisingly light indeed, and yes it looks like pikey CSM lol... u could get that down to half most probably with carbon n possibly soric. maybe its not needed.
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LOL,  "pikey CSM" hahaha

Day 1 (Clean up and Weigh in):









I was surprised at the weight they came out to be. 6.5Kg total. I thought it was going to be above 10Kg.

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Sounds like fun.

is it made from typical pikey CSM and cheap polyester?  If so you've plenty of room to play with on weight saving.

Warren Penalver
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I've agreed a bit of a cool job. Customer oens a dutch GRP velomobile and wants to replace some of the GRP panels with prepreg carbon to save weight.
This particular model is interesting in that the monocoque is also composite, which makes evenmore room for weigh savings.

I will post photos of the project as I go along.

Here's the beast:



GRP monocoque:



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