captain awesome
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I know this is Scramble budget, but what about Ti for weight reduction?
I have give that some thought, but for this build it will be stainless. I will weigh the bike when I am done and post before and after weight, I am using stainless drive shafts from the 200+ hp Mercury outboard motors and it is very high quality steel, allowing me to come back from the thread end of my bolts and drill down to the head to remove weight. I bet the bike is going to be lighter than most may think. I have a Salt Flats build making circles in my head and that one will be every nut, bolt, and washer made with weight and strength first then looks.captain awesome said:I know this is Scramble budget, but what about Ti for weight reduction?
SlipstreamCycle said:Acceleration speed wont matter there for sure. I have just started kicking some of that around and it will take several trips out to see what does and does not work. I have some very cool stories on Don Vesco's streamliner in some 1969 cycle world mags, very detailed and lots of pics. Hope to do something old school like that, link two small motors and go fast! He was using some light weight items though.