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nice to see someone trying something new
X-9 Nighthawk is an experimental frame made out of sandwich panels with aramid honeycomb as a core, covered with carbon fiber skins.
Reading that made me hungry, sandwich, honeycomb, skins.
Pretty cool that, certainly different.
Wouldn't like to land on the top tube!
Dear God, that's horrific. Thought it was gonna be about this:
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Which looks awesome!
Looks a bit school boy dream bike, needs some lasers etc, but I quite like it actually. Very neat tensioner. Not sure about the bar/stem thing.
So what's this honeycomb sandwich stuff? Cheaper/lighter/stronger than CF or just different?
If tron rode a push bike....
So what's this honeycomb sandwich stuff? Cheaper/lighter/stronger than CF or just different?
It's what Trek did on the OCLVs in the late 90s/early 2000s with Nomex.
i can still see it.
I'm assuming the seatstay / chainstay detatch, otherwise your 'Ooked when the belt snaps.
+1 on horrific.
so outdated then? or has he/they got some new tricks now? Whenever I see stuff like this I'm interested whether it's got potential to be an improvement or the designer is just doing it to be different.It's what Trek did on the OCLVs in the late 90s/early 2000s with Nomex
[img]I'm assuming the seatstay / chainstay detatch
[/img]looks like a split dropout
Love the ingenuity* of that, although those sharp corners could be fun.
and I'm a sucker for belt-drives 🙂
Any reviews of it anywhere? Is it lighter/stiffer/cheaper than conventional CF frames?
*note [i]ingenuity[/i] is where the word "engineer" comes from. An engineer is NOT someone who fixes washing machines, unless they're adapting parts from Graham Obree's bike to do so.
so outdated then? or has he/they got some new tricks now? Whenever I see stuff like this I'm interested whether it's got potential to be an improvement or the designer is just doing it to be different.
Dunno, this is being done differently in that it's the whole tube. Trek used it around the BB/head tube junctions IIRC. But now they don't, so who knows.
Do we know what this monstrosity costs and weighs, is there actually an advantage?
Just me, or is it not actually real?
slainte ❓ rob
bagsy not being the first one to end up straddling the top tube with my feet off the ground.
Note: These are actual photos of the real frame and bicycle, not renderings.
It's not been on my radar for a while now
Good or bad it's prob the future of bike building ...
I quite like it thankfully 😉
Not usually into 'niche-tastic' bikes, but the one in the OP's link looks great
[url= http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/bikebuilder.asp?action=GenerateConstructor&part=BB12RIBSTEALTH&sub=conf_BBRC&bike=1 ]i thought it was going to be about the ribble stealth[/url]
just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Just horrible, and I would love a disc equipped belt drive carbon flat bar singlespeed road bike.