Whitbread

Devcon type F. It's what honda uses to repair porous engine block castings at the factory instead of melting them back down.

Being a slut for money. Just been swamped in the shop. Only had the bike out twice since 4th of july sadly. On the last attempted ride, I broke a lower ball joint 8 miles into what was supposed to be a 75 mile trip . Planning a couple hundred mile trip for mid october in the UP of michigan, so hopefully that happens.

It's not the prettiest thing ever, but I couldn't go back to a stock tank for my type of extended riding sessions.

I'd even vote for Hilary to have a Sundahl chassis.

40:1 of klotz super techniplate for at least 12 years now. Never had a lube failure even when spiked lean. Piston top melted before the bore scuffed.

Dammit that's a good deal! If I didn't just buy a new crank due to a crank bearing failure, I'd be talking to you! I have them on my bike and bright is an understatement. I've posted a handful of lighting pictures of their output. Why are you selling these anyway?

Nope, I've never built a lightweight drag banshee and I have no problem stating that. I've learned from this thread that a drag bike and a TT bike are apparently 99% the same in construction though. Tricked should just buy one of the drag bikes in the classifieds and put his tires on it. That way all the lightweight work is already done. Thank you for proving my point that bolting together light drag parts you ordered doesn't make an expert either ☺.

So your lightweight TT bike has front struts, Marvin's, kx80 rad or waterbox, no front brakes, 12oz gastank with no gascap, t bars, alum seat pan, no plastics, no silencers, and a narrow alum rear axle? You will definitely be first and not last.

Since you have not built a lightweight TT bike before either, why is your input gold plated and anything from the guy who actually builds lightweight parts for other motorsports 100% useless? Half the normal drag ideas of weight cutting tricked can't apply to his build. Are you so equally narrow minded that no other form of motorsports has any useful information to offer for a banshee build? Do you think banshees are the only place aluminum, ti, and cromo have ever been used? Ordering up a chassis from a builder and then throwing a motor in it at home doesn't make an expert in lightweight chassis fabrication. Please, prove me otherwise and let's see pics of a cromo chassis that you designed and built in your own shop with your own hands. Then let's talk some design details on it since you're so knowledgeable in chassis fab.

You're right, I simply bought my efi bike, and have no knowledge of atvs, chassis building, welding, or machining that could remotely help tricked achieve his goal of a light as possible yet still durable TT bike. It makes tons of cents I'm posting here.

Not a banshee no. My bike is actually probably one of the heaviest here on the boards since it's built for long distance trail riding and carries 7.4 gallons of fuel on board. I spent 6 years surrounded by oval racing in ohio working on those cars and spent the last 4 years around road race cars and the f1 sidecars. I have quite a few friends into drag racing so I'm the fab guy they all turn to when they need something. I'm certainly not an expert in any one area, but I've seen enough to identify the differences in construction vs application for different motorsports and I'm comfortable enough to build anything put in front of me. These were all chassis's I built and did all the assembly and fab to make them run. Sorry I don't have a better pic of the F1 on my phone. It's a neat sheet alum monocoque chassis. So where the pics of your tt bike, tt specific parts you machined, or hanging out in the pits at a TT track where you amassed the TT specific knowledge that you've shared so graciously? In my first post you quoted yet again, you still failed to include the second paragraph of my post talking about stingers and silencers. I'd end up with an entire page of quoted text if I went back and grabbed every irrelevant whole sentence of yours, grammar not withstanding.

You still didn't answer which post you were specifically referencing of mine what is supposedly as whack to you as zilla stating material specs. In my first post in this thread that you requoted, you conveniently left out the part where I suggested .030 wall tube stingers and CF tube silencers. How is that not relevant to a lightweight build thread? Oh yes, the man who is building a TT bike should be kissing the feet of drag guys giving him advice on how to build a drag bike. I'm sure Jeff Gordon's chassis guy gets all his help from John Force's chassis guy also. IF you have built a lightweight TT bike, then by all means post the pics up. I'm going to bet firm money that the number of guys still in business that have built a serious effort lightweight banshee TT bike can be counted on less than 3 fingers and none of them are here. So, since none of us are in that group, we have to put our collective knowledge together to come up with the best ideas from each school of thought. I have built a handful of F1 sidecar bikes and alum/cromo race cars so I have a fair knowledge of various chassis designs for different types of loads. Is my knowledge TT banshee specific? No, but I know how to build something light that won't bend the first time out.

Which post of mine was whack compared to any of your posts in this thread belittling other members while not adding any build tips or suggestions?

Since you're going after every gram JT, why doesn't your bike have a TI one of these like F1 cars do? As the smartest person on BHQ you should be able to write the Gcode in your sleep. Oh wait, too bad you won't see this post.

Brett is a good buddy of mine. I offered to build him stingers, silencers, and now a swinger. How is that not relevant? What help have you legitimately offered outside of talking everyone else down and telling tricked he should let you build his bike? I haven't seen offers from you to lighten his cases, hubs, or any of the other stuff you supposedly do between your keyboard wars. I don't make my living building banshee parts, and if I was a supporting vendor here and trying to drum up business, I sure as hell would be trying to catch more flies with sugar than salt.

Hey Brett, if you want a light as possible bit still strong cromo swinger, I'll happily build one if you want to supply the materials and beer. Come up anytime. Yes JT, it is possible some random joe here may know something about a thing or two and chooses not to run his mouth all over trying to prove to everyone that he's the bestest.

If you don't live your life 300' at a time, they're great. Going for all out power, run duals. Like most mods, they have their purpose and best served application. You don't build a 24dm to go trail riding on.

Tricked doesn't have the option of dumping a normal size rad, running stubby marvin struts, an alum seat pan only, a 16 oz gas tank, or any of the other stuff drag guys can get away with. He's the only person I see here trying to make a legit rideable bike as light as possible for his application. A stripped drag bike that only needs to run hard for 4 seconds is not exactly relevant to the topic at hand. Come up here one weekend and we can whip up some carbon fiber tubed silencers with billet aluminum ends and do your stingers in .030" wall ss tube. Should be good 2-5lb loss I imagine.

This ^. Straight cuts, slingshot, and mull Water pump gear here. At idle, it sounds very....unrefined.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XIgGjXG0Gyo

Ah dammit, didn't realize you had 2 threads haha. I guess I don't get on here enough.

Wtf, I made a post in this thread asking about the fuel pump and now it's gone? So I guess I'll ask again LOL, do you still have the cannondale fuel pump? My used mystery one finally bit the dust last week on me.

Hey, do you still have the cannondale fuel pump? I just tried to go for a ride and didn't even make it half mile. Side of road inspection revealed pump was growling all kinds of funny noises at key on and was hotter than hell. So I think the used mystery pump is done for haha.

I didn't pay full retail thanks to eBay for any of my lights, but by no means were they cheap. You definitely get what you pay for with vision x, Baja designs, etc. Yes they are made overseas, but holset, Bosch, and Garrett all have overseas factories. So while it's not a "feature" I like, the build quality of the lights is great. I bought the Chinese copy of the light cannons for $70 from fleabay to toss on my beater rabbit pickup. They're only 2/3 as bright, housings uv faded with 2 months, beam is way looser, light color is more blue, and the visual build quality is way cheaper. But, they are the brightest $70 lights I've come across and if one gets smashed, I'm not going to be mad.