GSXR-W Fiberglass Review

[TJS]

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Edited November 27, 2022 by TJS
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[Joseph]

Glassfiber*

[davecara]

**Fibreglass. 

You're welcome 

[Joseph]

Fiber carbon ? 

[Madb]

Suzy not impressed by that wobbly end. Needs to be a lot stiffer then that! Tsk

[Captain Chaos]

6 hours ago, Madb said:

Suzy not impressed by that wobbly end. Needs to be a lot stiffer then that! Tsk

*than that

[Losiu]

I've already mentioned it here somewhere.

This is Polish product (no matter what language you view their website in),

I have 50km to their headquarters and I always pick up fairings personally

[Joseph]

Doesn't look any thinner than Airtech or Ragged edge products, does indeed look precise in moulding details though

How good is the headlight captive nut fixing ?

[Dezza]

One major factor missing from the review - does it fit the bike as intended?

Ragged Edge Racing stuff is GRP and very lightweight.

[TJS]

Seems to hold headlight just as well as oem. I hope to use this on a back up bike soon.....depends how much garage time "moma" will let me have!

[imago]

On 11/27/2022 at 11:18 PM, Joseph said:

Fiber carbon ? 

Fiberglas (American spelling and only one 's') was the patent and trade name for the first company producing it. The name stuck like 'Hoover' for a vacuum cleaner.

The first Carbon Fibre (UK spelling) patent was taken out by the MOD who didn't really give a shit about marketing so didn't give it a catchy name. I guess  we're probably lucky it's not called "Fibres. Carbon. Thousands. For the purpose of laying up to form sheets material."

[TJS]

https://a.co/d/ioaAVui

It's all in where you are from. ie How do you say "Aluminum"?

[Joseph]

Indeed, but as usual, a lack of common sense

Glass fibre is a fabric done with fibres made of glassg

So glass fibre is the logical term because it is indeed made with hot stretched to the max strands of glass that create fibres that are then chopped up

glass and carbon are used as adjectives, hence carbon fibre, because it describes what the fibres are made of. Thats also why you don't say fibre carbon.

a fibre glass if sense is used, describes a glass and the product it is designed to contain (like beer glass, wine glass etc)

[bluedog59]

1 hour ago, TJS said:

https://a.co/d/ioaAVui

It's all in where you are from. ie How do you say "Aluminum"?

What grade ?