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Yeah sure.....
Oops. That comment went in the wrong place. It was actually referring to the 'italian prayers' commentary in the video. Which chimes with the tone of the Rapha Continental videos. Do your bike rides feel like prayers and cycling through beautiful scenery in the mist? Mine feel like Grand Theft Auto commentated by Roy 'Chubby' Brown.
More crazy moon language! Were Condor and Rapha recently named as joint winners of the Nobel Prize for Bollockology?
Wow- are you a simpleton. Every single world they have used exists in the dictionary.
Fair play for them going on here to answer the questions.
If you want nonsense (made up words) looks at brands like Pinerello and Castelli.
+1
Having worked with CFRP, I could quite legitimately state that it looks like they are using pre-preg for the wrap of the tube junctions. If you don't understand the terms, robert_obrien, it doesn't mean it's bollocks!!
Even if you don't have any engineering experience, I'm pretty sure that if you thought about it, you could figure terms like uni (one?) and multi (many?) directional out... hopefully
The carbon fibre itself is manufactured in Japan, and the tubes are manufactured in house, in Italy. We also use some prefabricated tubes from Dedacciai, in the same way that we do with some of steel framesets.
When the tubes are individually manufactured, layers of carbon fibre are built up within a mould -in the same way that a monocoque frame is constructed. During this part of the process, both the alignment and type (uni or multi-directional) of fibres are strategically applied in order to dictate and influence the properties of the structure; obviously some areas need to be stiffer, some more compliant and some require increased levels of impact resistance. We also employ nano technology, whereby the epoxy used to bond the material together contains carbon nanotubes, making it much stronger.
We wanted to highlight that this process is not the same as off the shelf monocoque frames. It is much more costly and labour-intensive, but it allows us to be more flexible, i.e. custom etc...and it also ultimately leads to a higher quality product.
Hope this is helpful.
Dedacciai... Recognise the style anywhere
Nice to see small scale manufacture of bike frames! I hope it works out for them.
Did Condor also say where they get the tubes from? Also this does not make much sense "The frame is made with four layers of uni-directional carbon and two layers of directional high modulus carbon" - what did they mean to say?