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Old April 14th 2011, 23:19
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Say what you will, but here's what I'll be bolting my fenders on with:





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Old April 15th 2011, 07:36
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Jason,
You have got to wire all those bolts together otherwise the little holes will be redundant!
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Old April 15th 2011, 08:19
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Overkill! but truly "function" minded.

I love it
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Old April 15th 2011, 22:08
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Jason,
You have got to wire all those bolts together otherwise the little holes will be redundant!
Yours helpfully,
Clive
Here you thought the holes were for safety wire, of course you're completely wrong, they are drilled just to save more weight!!!

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looks kick ass Jason...
can you put them all on a scale to see the difference from stock.

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Old April 19th 2011, 13:40
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All I have is a digital bathroom scale, not sure if it will be to acurate at low numbers but I'll try.

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Don't you have a kitchen scale? That would work.

Nice bolts, btw, I am curious as to how much weight you are saving.
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Old April 21st 2011, 13:27
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The weights are +/- 1gram, as the scale only wieghs in 2 g increments, but it's close enough for what we are looking at here.

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You guys have issues...though they say 7lbs = 1 hp.
Lightweight - 4(fenders) x 9(bolts/fender) x 6(grams/bolt) = 216g

Stock - 4(fenders) x 9(bolts/fender) x 16(grams/bolt) = 576g

576-216 = 360g = .794 lbs

.794 lb / (7lbs/hp) =

I've gainded 0.11hp!!!!

I didn't really do it for the hp, but I'm glad there was a gain there too!

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I immediately started checking out the bolts that I was changing to these in aluminum. Thanks for the link. Logical? Not one bit...

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