master-cylinder and a 220mm Superbike
Unlimited rear disc matched to a Brembo
Billet CNC twin-piston caliper.
In true Lightfighter style, Wismann has
chosen to fit a set of superb looking and
very light Thyssenkrupp Carbon Compo-
nents carbon-fiber wheels from Germany.
"They're a braided carbon construc-
tion," Wismann says of the wheels.
"They're the lightest wheel I've ever held
or weighed. Right now, our only limita-
tion is really that they only offer a six-inch
wide rear wheel. They're still working on
narrower wheel options. We would ideally
like to run a 5.5-inch for the power and
weight we're at with the Lightfighter. But
we've been playing around with the six-
inch wheel and running some various size
200-width rear tires. It affects handling a
little bit, but you do get some other gains.
We pick up a little bit of top speed from a
higher profile tire."
"I literally bought one off eBay, did a 3D
scan, and we started working around with
the geometry, and it looked like it would
work really well, and it has," Wismann said.
The swingarm linkages, so important in
the overall concept of the Lightfighter, are
custom made. "We have the stock linkage
and then we have a couple of shorter link-
ages to play with the ride height," Wismann
says. "The bell crank position is actually on
the motor itself, and it does change slightly
compared to the gas bike position. But we
look at all of those influences and some
suspension tuning spreadsheets and geom-
etry packages and what we've got on there
right now is a negative ten-millimeter link."
Keeping the show rubber-side down is a
set of pretty old-school but still very ca-
pable FGRT 210 Ohlins fork tubes and an
Ohlins TTX36 shock, with the front brakes
the beautiful dual 320mm T-slotted floating
discs, mated to radially mounted Brembo
CNC monobloc four-piston P34/38 racing
calipers with titanium pistons, all squeezed
by a Brembo RCS 19mm radial master-
cylinder.
The rear brake is a bit different. It's a
scooter-style setup with the lever on the
left handlebar (Jonathan Rea also runs this
setup in WorldSBK), running a Magura 195
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(Above) Self-
supporting carbon-
fiber seat unit/
subframe weighs a
mere two pounds
without the seat
foam. (Right)
Brembo radial
RCS 19mm master-
cylinder controls
the front brakes.
(Below) Ohlins
forks are from the
Ducati 1098/1198
era, but still work as
good as any. The
Brembo Monobloc
calipers are also a
similar vintage.
