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Making your own race parts

Discussion in 'General' started by TheGrouchyCat, Oct 3, 2016.

  1. TheGrouchyCat

    TheGrouchyCat Don't let my friends know I'm slow

    Two of my favorite parts of the formula SAE team last year were designing and machining parts for the car. I'm not sure if I'll be doing SAE this year, but I'd still like to do my own designs. I'm thinking about making custom rearsets for my r6 and was wondering what other parts I could design for my bike. Also, I have access to a 3D printer which could possibly be useful. Any ideas???
    :)

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  2. baconologist

    baconologist Well-Known Member

    The list is endless if you have fab skills and run a V or SB class
     
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  3. britx303

    britx303 Boomstick Butcher…..

    WINGS!!!!!!!
     
  4. RRP

    RRP Kinda Superbikey

    I have a good friend who owns a tool and die business in Iowa and when I asked him about making rearsets he replied,

    "Why - when I can call Woodcraft?"

    :D
     
  5. metricdevilmoto

    metricdevilmoto Just forking around

    That.
     
  6. motoracer1100

    motoracer1100 Well-Known Member

    That's a Bad Ass looking R6 ...:D
     
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  7. BrianC636

    BrianC636 Well-Known Member

    Put it on a diet. Lighten up anything you can. Maybe custom triples where you can run offset bushings or things like aluminum engine spacers or axles.
     
  8. fastfreddie

    fastfreddie Midnight Oil Garage

    Pegs...how about a wider peg vs those narrow diameter torture pins that pass as foot rests? I'm familiar with MX/SX/Trials, I think we can agree that footwork is apart of those disciplines, and they all have wider aftermarket pegs available and the rider's appreciate that option. Relying on Woodcraft to think outside the box is what keeps us inside the box. Their rearsets suck. Sloppy toleranced bushings, linkage lash, shift linkages interfering with foot placement close to the frame and resulting knotchy shifts.
    Why are our pegs round tubes? 'Cuz no one's thinking outside the cost box for the benefit a little more money can bring.

    What's the radius on the contact surface of an OEM peg? Compared to the usual rearset offerings, it's flat.
     
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  9. mike-guy

    mike-guy Well-Known Member

    Who would want some bear claw foot peg? I never rode dirt but I can't imagine those pivot on pegs like we go road racing.
     
  10. fastfreddie

    fastfreddie Midnight Oil Garage

    On an R1. The pivoting part is model specific. Gilles Tooling makes these for a large number of OEM peg replacements but not for their rearsets.
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  11. SmokeSignalRT

    SmokeSignalRT Fat Member

    Make 2 sets when you make them because no one will have interchangeable parts when you crash.
     
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  12. metricdevilmoto

    metricdevilmoto Just forking around

    Ooh! Folding! Racey!

    What OEM pegs/rearsets are meant to do are very different things than proper race rearsets are meant to do.

    There are companies making rearset pegs with more of a platform. Like Graves. I didn't quote the original post and sign off on Woodcraft everything, but rather substitute "Woodcraft" for 'every aftermarket parts supplier".
     
  13. Dave K

    Dave K DaveK über alles!

    Why make something that you can buy that is most likely better than you can make and cheaper like rear sets? You're gonna do it, do it big: triple clamps and sano parts.

    and why did you post the picture of Capirossi on the Marlboro Ducati?

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  14. britx303

    britx303 Boomstick Butcher…..

    Inquiring minds want to know.............:p
     
  15. condon66

    condon66 Member well known

  16. masshole

    masshole sixoneseven

    Capirex made his own parts too! :confused:
     
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  17. fastfreddie

    fastfreddie Midnight Oil Garage

    Panigale 959
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  18. jeffr1ey

    jeffr1ey Well-Known Member

    Foot anchors
     
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  19. fastfreddie

    fastfreddie Midnight Oil Garage

    No need to be folding, I guess, but what says a round tube is better than a flat or oval tube? With that kind of thinking, wouldn't our aftermarket levers be straight rods?
     
  20. dtalbott

    dtalbott Driving somewhere, hauling something.

    Lighter frame?
     

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