{"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

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Front fender before:<\/p>\n

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After.<\/p>\n

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The key guard.<\/p>\n

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And the sprocket cover.<\/p>\n

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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

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Carbon Fiber-izzled:<\/p>\n

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These pieces fit without issue and add a nice touch to the bike in my opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}