No big post this week, just wanted to draw attention to this bikeradar tour of the Look factory, in response to my post a few weeks back that talked about making carbon fibre bikes. It makes for an interesting read, but note that, from a background dealing with fibreglass structures and with some idea of what to expect from the bike industry, Look is not typical in making its frames from individual fibres - I would expect pre-pregs to be far more common.
That being said, this is definitely the way to engineer a bike to be the best that it can be, so it's probable the Cervelo Rca is similarly hand-laid, and it seems to me that the Canucks might have the edge over the French in pure frame engineering (from what I've heard. I'd love to be speaking from experience!), but, as you can read, this level of detail takes a lot of time and effort.
And I'd still prefer something welded!
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