Of course, some of you might have already seen my post on another forum.
I know that it gaves some ideas
Once upon a time (christmass period, so a good way to start telling stories ), I had one of these garage friend.
I'm sure you know what I mean. You've all had these types of friend that you only met at the garage.
This one was renting a box close to mine.
He was playing with various old car. Between others, a pair of prepared Audi Ur coupé. (crashed, of course)
And one day, he turned up with an old 911.
Some works, he had to change a wheel, came to me, and put a wheel nut in my hand.
Magnesium !
It feels like nothing, so light it is.
No wonder that these cars are running so good.
Yes, as Sir Isaac said, F=Ma.
The lighter the car, the less efforts to gather speed.
That was 10 years ago.
So in order to limit the weight of my cars, I decided to work on the driver weight.
And I put together an old race bike, seventies look.
Because of it, I applied an old way of decoration : The drillium.
Was is it ?
Removing weight by drilling all potential parts.
So, I had bought for nearly nothing an old sad horse
Not a real Colnago. A good frame but not that kind of bikes Ferrari.
Just stickers.
Got rid of this
Choosed a TA out of my stock
A bit of drillium, rid of the front derailleur ...
Brakes levers ?
Drill them and polish them.
They will be more sexy
A Campa Grand Sport derailleur ?
And after the usual drillium treatment
And finaly a paint job.
But ... of course this is not a bike forum
So, can we apply the same to our old bags ?
Well yes
Also some engine parts ...
But that was for another reason...
Clutch down to 5 Kg
And of course, this is the reason why I finaly complete my glas fiber panel
The parts to bolt it will be redone in Aluminium
Just a last example : the hinge of that front bonnet
On top the serie 2 (and murena) part : 666 Gr per side
On the bottom, got the serie 1 part down to 350 Gr (From 415 Gr)
So on these I won 632 Gr.
Yes, it might be seen as decoration only.
But I believe that applied to every part of a Bagheera, I might end up with quite a weight reduction