Featured Rocket Finally, After Almost 10 Months, I Got My Tfc Mod Done ...

From about 5 minutes after collecting my Rocket 3 TFC, I had decided that the rear spray guard in scratchy grey plastic needed to go, and be replaced with carbon fibre to match the parts on the mid and front of the bike. We're talking about the bit:


After doing plenty of investigation, looking at hydro-dipping (which wouldn't have looked right, due to it not having the 3D effect of real carbon), and even getting a quote for the part to be moulded and created from scratch in carbon fibre, I managed to find a compromise solution.

Here is the result:
And here it is on the bike:


As you can see, it's got that 3D effect where the light catches the CF grain differently, but rather than the £2000-5000 I got quoted to get it fabricated in CF, this was about the same money as having it hydro-dipped, at around £150.

The process is to actually graft a thin layer of real carbon fibre onto the spray guard, then apply several layers of protection and gloss to it. Apparently it was a little tricky around the bolt holes, and you can even see that the process doesn't produce a perfect result there, but since that's entirely blocked by the licence plate itself, I'm super happy with the result!

Dave