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    Posted: 02 Jul 2015 at 21:39
Hi,has anyone had experience with carbon wrapping, my bike fell of stand whilst running as you all may know when I was asking about levers in my previous post .
I thought it may be a solution to the damaged faring. It would be cheaper than getting it painted and getting new decals. I already have decals coming for bellypan which I had ordered before it fell.I would rather spend the money on a slipper clutch as the bike is not going to be standard with mods. Any advice would be much appreciated, many thanks Richard.
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I've carbon wrapped the fairing ears and my rear light unit on my Mille, plus a few other smaller items. But I've never tried doing it on anything larger like a fairing or bellypan. It's actually pretty easy to do if you use plenty heat from a hair drier and buying half decent quality 3M wrap helps too. I would imagine that a fairing/bellypan might be a bit tricky because of the different curves and angles involved. 

You could of course take it somewhere which does wrapping, should still work out cheaper than a paint job.

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I have seen a few that have been hydro dipped and the results have been pretty good.
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Hydrographics (Water Transfer Printing) can give excellent results as well.


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I've done a small amount of this on car various parts and got on OK with it. Big flat areas are nice and simple but curves and contours can be quite tricky which might not make a bike fairing the easiest thing to do.

If your going for it I'd recommend a good quality "bubble fee" wrap such as 3M or similar. Also prepair to steal the other halfs hair dryer to heat it up!
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ive done my frame swingarm and tail unit + some bits of the lower fairing - make sure its all super clean before you start.

go with 3m stuff Thumbs Up 

also if you have to cut curves into the bits your doing use cutting tape - its like sticky dental floss - rather than cut or trim with a knife on the panels, you put the cutting tape where you want the carbon to end and overlap it - theres vids on u tube. its probably trickier to do than putting on the carbon sheets, but gives a good edge when finished 



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Just buy a carbon fairing.
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Originally posted by Anton88 Anton88 wrote:

ive done my frame swingarm and tail unit + some bits of the lower fairing - make sure its all super clean before you start.

go with 3m stuff Thumbs Up 

also if you have to cut curves into the bits your doing use cutting tape - its like sticky dental floss - rather than cut or trim with a knife on the panels, you put the cutting tape where you want the carbon to end and overlap it - theres vids on u tube. its probably trickier to do than putting on the carbon sheets, but gives a good edge when finished 



got ant any pics of the bike Anton please?? Interested in seeing how it looks ...thanks.

I've seen the cutting tape going to get my vinyl from a place in grays essex


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Originally posted by redratbike redratbike wrote:

Originally posted by Anton88 Anton88 wrote:

ive done my frame swingarm and tail unit + some bits of the lower fairing - make sure its all super clean before you start.

go with 3m stuff Thumbs Up 

also if you have to cut curves into the bits your doing use cutting tape - its like sticky dental floss - rather than cut or trim with a knife on the panels, you put the cutting tape where you want the carbon to end and overlap it - theres vids on u tube. its probably trickier to do than putting on the carbon sheets, but gives a good edge when finished 



got ant any pics of the bike Anton please?? Interested in seeing how it looks ...thanks.

I've seen the cutting tape going to get my vinyl from a place in grays essex


sure, ll try get some close up pics for you later Thumbs Up 
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Cheers


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I like it on bikes ...






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sorry bit late but here you go :



















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Cheers

Looks good


Any tips

Is that the textured carbon??


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yep its textured 

only tips :

get everything super clean
take your time
if engine is out it would be MUCH easier to do the frame spars ( you wouldnt think it but they were a nightmare - lots of heating and stretching of the wrap to make it fit) 

* deffo watch some u tube vids on it being done - you can heat it up a fair bit and make it stretch but there is a nack to it

start on something small to get used to it

good luck

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oh and get a squeegee - has to be soft so you dont scratch it - a lot you can do by hand though Thumbs Up 
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Oooo looks good that, nice job!

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Originally posted by NickyBoy1984 NickyBoy1984 wrote:

Oooo looks good that, nice job!

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cheers dude - partly inspired by the black frame and swinger on your bike before you bought it Thumbs Up
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Ooo coolio Hehee

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