Hi Tech Road And Mountain Cycling



This is not breaking news in the cycling world, but I haven’t shared this awesome bicycle creation with you, my faithful readers, and would love to talk to you about it and read your comments.
We, cycling fanatics are always trying to find better bicycles with better components to help us go faster and have a more comfortable and exciting bike ride in endurance races or in long road trainings, and at the same time, we also like to look…good.

Take a special look at the tubes of the frame of the bike.

Some engineers have created a very strong and lightweight bicycle frame for both, mountain and road bikes. The frame is an isotruss-based carbon fibers previously wound with a sheet that holds the tension.
Delta 7 Sports has definitely created the stiffest and lightest road bike Ascend with unique carbon fiber and Kevlar frames that are of limited production, with life warranty and handcrafted in the United States.

“We go back afterwards and hand-wind all the little Kevlar strands, inch-by-inch, over each isotruss,” ~Tyler Evans said. Mr. Evans is a program manager at Delta 7 Sports in Payson, Utah.

“This bike rides like bikes that are much heavier and stronger and built like a tank, but it’s still in the featherweight category,” Evans said.

The mountain bike frame weighs 2.6 pounds. The new Ascend road bike weighs 1.8.

“You definitely feel like a rock star, like you’re famous, like you belong in the Tour de France or some high-end race,” cyclist Dan Weller told Ivanhoe.

“Right now, that feeling requires patience. It takes about 100 hours to build each IsoTruss bike. Delta 7 produced only 200 IsoTruss models in 2008, but is working on ways to mass-produce them in the near future. To get one right now, you have to add yourself to the waiting list and put down a $1,000 deposit.” ~ Science Daily reported.

Related articles by Zemanta

Reblog this post [with Zemanta]

Leave a Reply