Hooray! The new batch of titanium fasteners have arrived!
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| Titanium metric and American thread bolts for Bikes/bicycle and car |
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| Honda replica 90112- MAT-000 fairing bolt |
The photo's aren't really doing justice to how good these fasteners look.
On the left here is a titanium fairing bolt for Honda sports bikes. It doesn't have the dimples in the large flat top surface like the original part but it's about 60% the weight of the Genuine steel item and won't corrode. There seems to be a bit of a following for these Honda bolts with Honda RC45 owners
 These M8 titanium dome nuts shimmer in the light, and the first 10 are going on the heads of my Suzuki RGV250SP. Standard steel dome heads are 8.3gm each but these titanium ones are 4.6gm giving a weight saving of 37gm on my bike, meaning I can eat a bag of crisps and still be 10gm's lighter on the bike, although the second gear power wheelie is probably a thing of the past on account of my ahem, girth. :P
BICYCLE PARTS
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The standard steel rear brake bolt on my racer was getting corroded even after only a few hundred miles so here's me fitting a new corrosion proof and lighter titanium version. Hopefully I'll get time to test it this weekend
 I didn't realise the bolt holding the rear brake is shorter than that of the front brake, which will be a later order. This steel front brake bolt has suffered with the weather and it hasn't been exposed much to the weather.
Jockey wheel titanium bolts all also ready for sale. The original steels ones seemed to have fared well against the weather, probably due to being caked in oil and grease. :)
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Here are the two sides of crank bolts. They fitted perfectly to my bike so they'll be tested this weekend, if I can sneak out the house for a while.
BRAKE BLEED BOLTS
I had two types of titanium brake bleed bolt made. The metric type will be used to replace the rusty originals on my bike and the Imperial (American thread UNF) 1/4" version will be tried out on a friends Classic Mini. My Mini has KAD front calipers and I think they're different. Although I'll fit them to the rear Mini brakes.
That's a few of what titanium parts are going on sale on the Ebay lathe*dog shop http://www.fairingbolt.com/ shop Amazon and http://titanclassics.com/ shop
Initial checks on all the parts are showing the manufacturers have done an outstanding job again. Every little fillet and chamfer from the CAD files is present.
That's all for now and I hope I haven't bored you too much on the fascinating subject of weight reduction and thread types.
There are a couple of new GENUINE RGV250SP curved radiators imported from Japan on the lathe*dog Ebay shop which are gorgeous! They're expensive because all Japanese goods are expensive now. About double the price they were 6 years ago.
AND FINALLY
I thought you'd like to see a pretty picture of a CAD model. Normally diagrams to the manufacturer look like blueprints and have a note indicating the thread type, but you can model the thread and bring the model into the renderer PhotoView or Autodesk Showcase and get beautiful realistic renders like below.
Double banjo bolt rendered in Showcase
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Nice looking work!
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