A new bike frame technology, it is supposed to be ultralight and ultrastrong.

If a simple polygon can hold up a pharaoh’s tomb for 4,500 years, it should survive some off-road riding. That’s the thinking behind the 2.75-pound Arantix mountain-bike frame from Delta 7 Sports. It’s 10 times as strong as a steel frame of the same weight would be—enough to survive the company’s informal “run- over” test with a Ford F350 pickup.

The Arantix draws its exceptional strength-to-weight ratio from rods composed of several hundred layers of carbon fiber, wrapped tightly with Kevlar cord and woven to form a long series of little pyramids. The rods intersect to create hundreds of stress-bearing joints that add strength and isolate damage, so a crack in one part of the frame won’t spread to another and wreck your ride.

Because each frame requires up to 300 hours of hand-weaving, Delta 7 will make only 200 this year, selling for $7,000 each starting in the spring. Spread over a few millennia, that’s a bargain.

Picture and quote from Popular Science

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Check out the new bike from Cannondale. I love Cannondale. So I love to see what innovative things they are doing.

Cannondale designer Chris Dodman shows off the prototype folding bicycle at Eurobike 2007. This is a full size bike with 26″ inche wheels that folds back so the front wheel overlaps the rear wheel. That beefy chainguard you see is also an integrated chainstay and rear wheel rocker, providing all of the support for the rear wheel. The non-drive side is completely empty. This bicycle has SRAM’s iMotion 9 speed hub which has been modified for the unique characteristics of this folder. Like the rear wheel, the front wheel is supported on one side with a one-sided “fork,” kind of like the Lefty fork, except this one is a “Righty.” This enables more compact folding of the bike.

Photo and Information quoted from www.cyclelicio.us

Ever since Subway changed how they cut their sandwiches things have been different. This just proves it. They are trying to trap me, a cheese lover (kinda), into by more cheese because I want it to cover my 6 inch BMT on wheat.

(HT: comsumerist)