{"id":103,"date":"2010-06-26T23:42:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T06:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2010-06-26T23:42:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T06:42:53","slug":"carbon-fiber-is-my-24-karat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/2010\/06\/carbon-fiber-is-my-24-karat\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Fiber is My 24 Karat"},"content":{"rendered":"
Okay, I couldn’t help from getting some aesthetic upgrades. Sure, they don’t make the bike go faster… but it’s already faster than 99% of the cars on the road :) In my defense, the carbon fiber pieces are lighter than the stock ones, if that’s worth anything. At first I wanted to replace the key guard, since the stock one is made out of some hard rubber material and it’s finish wasn’t the most robust. So I decided to get a carbon fiber cover for it from Shift-Tech, but decided to get some other stuff as well… you know, to match…<\/p>\n
Below shows the front fender, sprocket cover, and the key guard cover.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n Front fender before:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n After.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The key guard.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n And the sprocket cover.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n One thing I excluded from the order was the exhaust heat shield, but quickly decided that was needed as well, and it arrived soon enough.<\/p>\n Before:<\/p>\n