Carbon Copy: VM license plate mount

A small amount of progress, but not much unfortunately. I did manage to cut out the rough shapes with a Dremel, and get them close with the 12" vert. disc sander. The four upper parts in this pic are close to their final shapes/sizes(two are clamped together on the upper left, they will be the sides where the turn signals go) but there is still plenty of fitting to do before everything can come together. You might also notice everything is covered in tape to limit scratches.

 


The U shaped piece that will attach under the bike is VERY roughly drawn, this is just to get rid of excess material. The little circles indicating the stud locations are within 1/8" of the proper locations, and once this rough shape is cut out, a more carefully measured drawing will be taped on and final shaping will be done. The "legs" of this part will probably end up just a bit smaller that the original. The "studs" will be flat head stainless screws epoxied in, as will the two screws for the key cover. I also have the license plate portion roughly cut, but no pic of that.

License light and zip tie mount test fitted:



I should have the carbon parts ready by Friday, I'll post up when I have progress.

Moving along...parts taped together for a mockup, angles are done and plate piece is cleaned up, just working on getting the sides finished up now, be back in a bit with more progress:

Mounting screws epoxied in, just glued up the key cover screws now. Turn signal spacers will be hidden, so no reason to make them look good. The Delrin parts joining everything will be three sided to match the VM unit angles...you'll see

Well, not the best looking thing around, but it's basically finished. Unfortunately I could not find my M2.5 tap, so had to go 3mm, and of course could not find enough flat heads to make it look as I intended. It will be pretty easy to countersink the holes and put them in. Plate portion bolts up using the license light screws, so that thick Delrin part might be thinned out some, I'll check it when it's time. Have to find a food scale, but I'm guessing it's about half the weight of the original. Future plans will be to make this from thin (probably .062") carbon and do a much better job to get that weight down, since this 1/8" is way too much, so I consider this a practice run.




I'll get those flat heads and get it mounted on the bike, it'll be a few days.

Have all the 1/16" pieces done, just waiting on the 3/16" thick stuff to get here to make the side pieces. Went with satin twill weave:




to match all this other crap:

Looks cool, a lot of work.      Question -  is that an extra long frame slider or does it double as a highway peg? 

With that much $$ in drop dead gorgeous carbon...it still ain’t long enough.