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Old 04-25-13, 07:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Canaboo
There is already a carbon frame with honeycomb between the carbon layers.
http://www.bikerumor.com/2011/10/29/...eycomb-frames/
My understanding of the use of honeycombed interiors is to provide a incompressible core with very little weight. This way the outside layers are actually forming a "box" which will have more stiffness then a single layer alone. Quite the opposite of the CLD mentioned before. Andy.
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