Anyone own a lathe fancy skinning a flywheel?

[Hahadumball]

looking to have my flywheel lightened but honestly dont fancy paying a machinist for something i may not like and return to standard, anyone have a lathe able to take a bit off for me in their spare time
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[Ste]

Hmmmmmm, I wonder who you might be asking.

[Hahadumball]

[sickpup]

Assuming this is a motorcyle why skim the flywheel instead of skimming the crank and balancing?

[ScottT]

Take the engine cover off, start the bike up and hold a file against the flywheel, an hour or so later you'll have taken a bit of weight off it, videoing it will also help us enjoy it later.

[c_dug]

I have (access to) a lathe and I've done bits for BCFists in the past, but as I understand it, to make a noticeable difference with lightening a flywheel you need to remove a fair amount of meat, and that done wrong can go badly.

Not the sort of thing I'd do as an experiment for somebody else's bike!
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[Hahadumball]

[Hahadumball]

[MORTYandrick]

why on earth would anyone want to do this?
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[johnsmith222]

Can you not just buy a faster bike?

[Nobby the Bastard]

I would have thought that you being quadraspazzed would preclude you riding a bike.

If not quadrospazzed, stop trying to rip off the insurance company.
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[Hahadumball]

buy a faster bike.. implying its not fun to make bikes more fun instead of paying more for another...
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Fin: no matter how much I look at It I can't understand what was going through my head, all I remember is going about 80 and redlining it to stop it seizing.
360 Deg... Five 1/4 turns. :- Teflon-Mike 18 Jan 2015

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[johnsmith222]

[V2]

Ill do it for £300 if you tell me where you want it taken off and how much...

P.S I'm not too great on a lathe

P.P.S Ill accept no responsibility if I fuck it up


I'd get it skimmed though

[nowhere.elysium]

[Hahadumball]

Ah, i see what i did, i mean i dont fancy paying a machinist mega bucks for it to be done, id rather pay a guy on the side to do it
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Fin: no matter how much I look at It I can't understand what was going through my head, all I remember is going about 80 and redlining it to stop it seizing.
360 Deg... Five 1/4 turns. :- Teflon-Mike 18 Jan 2015

[spikenipple]

I'll do it for £50+return postage, you supply dimensions and the part. 1 week turn around.
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[kramdra]

I have done similar with a cbr6 generator Im using in a bicycle project. There is not much you can remove. Most will be from the hub and inner face. The rear face mounts the sprag clutch. The OD is quite heavy but is not solid, it retains the magnets in the middle, you dont want them flying off at 14000 rpm.

This would take minutes to do. Most of which would be turning a taper to mount it with and clocking it true.