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Isla Short - XCO wheels
Chloe Taylor, Katy Curd, Fergus Ryan - Enduro seen in video
Daryl Brown - Freeride? he was at Darkfest earlier in the year and Hardline this week???
Fairplay to Katie, that road gap she hits is huge and sketchy as fuck, video doesn't show it. Was up in the FoD a few months ago and that gap had been built next to an existing track, I looked and thought fuck that.
Do you think they can hit a weight target using a vpp and alloy? What is an acceptable weight for a world-class athletes bike? What does her BMC weight now?
I must say that Cecile is definitely doing something right with 2 of her athletes (both Vali and PFP) taking rainbow jerseys in their first year with her as coach.
And then speculate that the new Sram cassette is lighter than any other, even 11 speed?
Please?
Its a 140/150mm front, 130mm rear travel bike. 2 sizes of chainstays, 22 sizes in total. 65.5 degree head angle.
Steeper seat angle than the AM150. Should be a ripper. Launches very soon.
This thread used to be exciting to check every week but now it’s annoying to pick through the constant derailments
In REAL news, one of the big 3 is having some announcement tomorrow about some two wheeled machines.
Just don’t have £4K+ right now :-(
After you have the models exported (done by the design engineer/drafter/whatever you call the CAD guy/girl), they need to be prepared to be 3D printed by positioning them in the slicer, sliced, a printing file needs to be generated and the models printed. With untested models there can be a few issues that you likely need to modify by hand after the fact.
So it's not an easy process. Companies charging ~200 € for custom geometry on welded aluminium frames hardly get their money's worth, the cost is likely offset by a bunch of standard frames.
As for what Athertons do, I've already commented that it's hard to imagine their process gives any meaningful profits considering all the steps and manual work it requires on standard bikes, let alone the custom geometry bikes.
EDIT: all of this is just guessing, I'm not privy to the process (other than what we saw in the dreambuild video), but it's based of my (limited?) knowledge of using CAD software and having parts 3D printed for prototype samples during development in automotive applications.