flyingbrick

always amazing.

This. Codex is amazing. Its even more amazing now that normal people with day jobs can control codex (on their home pc) remotely via their phone (using chatGPT app). Integration is not perfect- it has a few major bugs, but its good enough to do some funny shit (for those who aren't getting fb messenger spam from me, today i had codex on my home PC write a windows app. took about 30 seconds. The app turns my laptop volume to 90% and then says my wifes name out loud. So i can just tell gpt via codex remotely to run the program and it starts saying MEGAN MEGAN MEGAN (or whatever else i ask it to say on repeat) untill i tell it to stop. I probably used like 6 buckets of water for that app and im not even sad.

I haven't been on old-school for maybe a year. I was just standing in the shower thinking about your build and decided I better come have a look to see if you had updated at all. Not disappointed!

Oh shit! I actually didn't read your message right (surprise surprise) when you said you had issues with it. So I actually set the grease in one of the pivots on fire and had to extinguisher it. (I presumed it was grease ...was the housing plastic?!) The thing wouldn't come apart as the nuts were spinning and welding seemed like more fun than fiddling with the pivot removal Sorry man.

Need to check my spreadsheet but I'm up around 35kg off. It just gets confusing as many things like exhaust are so many iterations on from factory. Need to weigh the whole bike. I can say it's massively noticable when riding. Compared to a factory one it's like a whole new bike. I also cut down my levers and welded new balls on the ends to make them look legit. Mostly just because they looked cooler About 2% of the brake removal crowd does it for the right reasons. Very common for Americans to take off one front caliper and disc, and the rear caliper and disc, just to get the look they want. It's seriously stupid.

Replaced the steel engine mount bush things with aluminium. Shitty job to do for bugger all weight saved.. had to cut a socket into a tool to remove the factory pieces. 150g removed

Removed the heavy steel bracket, lower aero tray and voltage regulator mount thing, then relocated the voltage thing up into the tail. 622g saved

I deleted the oil cooler and blocked off the outlets. These bikes do not need the oil cooler even when turbocharged and making 600+HP, so although it's a strange thing to remove- the benefits are numerous. 2055g saved and it's now a whole lot easier to change the oil filter as the oil cooler isn't blocking access

I spend ages thinking about where else I could save some weight and the best way to make this. I wouldn't do it this way again, but it's good enough that there is no reason to change it now. The factory fuel tank mount incorporates a hinge and is quite heavy steel The hinge is cool because it means that you only have to undo two seat bolts and two tank bolts to lift the tank up (to access the airbox) My new tank mount does not hinge, so rather than four bolts you now have to undo 6..not really a big deal. This saved ****TBC**** I have done a fair few km with this bracket now, so I am pretty happy with it. I was initially a little concerned about loads (you brace yourself against the tank sometimes) but it's rigid and STRONG.

I had drilled holes in my factory exhaust mounts to try cut some weight out. These were cast aluminium and 680g each. Holes were cool but when I changed to a single sided exhaust there was another opportunity to drop weight. I used filleting wax to smooth out the cast part and fill in the holes id made, then poured a mold in silicone, then made my own exhaust mount using a mixture of carbon and kevlar. I oriented the strands appropriately so that it was the strongest possible (well, as strong as is possible within my garage) component, with strands wrapping around the full part and around the mounting holes etc. it is STRONG.. The single component weighs 129g, a saving of 551g...but as the left side is no longer needed at all, there is a total saving of 1234g Really didn't like the look of it so painted black in the end. Made a carbon fiber heel guard too.

I bought two old mufflers off trademe cheap. One was full titanium but buggered from a fall (was worse irl than it looked in the photos) The second one is a super cool old carbon fiber muffler. Unfortunately the carbon one had a hole from an impact, was too long and was sized to suit a little motor. I patched the hole with carbon fiber on the inside, cut both ends of the carbon body off to shorten the whole thing (the ends were all messed up) and then put the bigger guts from the titanium muffler into the carbon one. It's on my list to tidy up one day but for now it looks alright and works well. Since I replaced two heavy (but still lighter than OEM) mufflers with one carbon muffler the weight saving overall is HUGE. gets confusing without checking spreadsheet but approximately 15,000 saved vs factory mufflers ****to edit later.****

Bought a very cheap set of yoshimura stainless extractors. Unfortunately they were missing the head flange things so I cut the pieces off the factory headers, re sized the tubes in the press by pushing through a torpedo so that they slid into the extractors slip joints nicely. I was quite proud of how well these cleaned up- I soaked the stainless in a bath of Citric acid for a few days and they went from shit to nearly new. 3900g saved from extractors alone.

Removed the clutch covers external dampener weight thing to save 228g It's covered by the fairing anyway so it's a waste of space

Took out the radiator fans, drilled out the welds and removed the steel guarding to save 220g

Hah, haven't been here for ages. *Numbers below may change once I look at spreadsheet but let's hope I'm reading my phone notes right. Removed the smog stuff and fitted some nice cover plates to save 449g