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Vittoria First to Use Graphene in Carbon MTB Rims
Graphene is a modern technology wonder, said to be 200 times stronger than steel and yet extremely flexible and lightweight. Vittoria began experimenting with Graphene as a resin additive and found, “Graphene-enhanced composites have 10~30% improved material properties.” Among those improved material properties, the company found the additive made wheels more laterally stiff and that spoke hole strength …
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Podcast: Why Are Bike Companies Obsessed With Making Everything More Stiff?
It seems many of the latest mountain bike innovations are being pitched as good for consumers because they add stiffness (see Boost 148, 35mm handlebars, wider rims, etc.) So why is stiffness important to mountain bikers, and aren’t bikes stiff enough already? We attempt to uncover the truth.
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Robot Bike Co. 3D Prints Custom Titanium and Carbon Fiber Bike Frames
Three years ago I wrote an article titled “Is 3D Printing the Future for Mountain Bikes?” Well, if you ask Robot Bike Co., the answer is yes! Robot Bike Co. is a new company in the UK that’s producing its first bike frame, a 160mm trail bike called the R160 that’s unlike any other bike on the market. The …
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Alchemy Arktos Trail Bike Test Ride Review
The Arktos is a carbon fiber trail bike from Alchemy, a small Denver company that’s dedicated to hand-building bikes in the USA. Yep, that’s right: the Arktos is a handmade carbon fiber mountain bike, and they have the 2016 North American Handmade Bicycle Show best MTB and people’s choice awards to prove it. There’s certainly been a …
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Review: Canyon Spectral CF Mountain Bike
Normally when we fly to a destination in order to write up a series, like this one, for Singletracks, we get hooked up with a rental bike from a local shop for the week. These rentals have varied in quality over the years from low-end, clapped-out, 2-year-old bikes to brand-new, off-the-showroom-floor, not-yet-available-to-the-public wonder bikes. Canyon …
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