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11-25-04 | 01:20 AM

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khuon

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From: Catching his breath alongside a road near Seattle, WA USA

Bikes: 1999 K2 OzM, 2001 Aegis Aro Svelte

While Easton recently purchased Velomax, I don't think those are Velomax wheels. I believe they're the new nanotube carbon fibre wheelsets. They're probably the most advanced carbon fibre wheels developed yet. They use multiwall nanotube carbon fibre. NTCF can be made 5-10 times lighter while at the same time offering as much as 5-10 times the strength of standard grade CF.

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Graphite Crystal = Diamond
CF Std. = Typical standard carbon fibre
MWNT = Multi-Wall Nano-Tubes
SWNT = Single-Wall Nano-Tubes

                        Graph      CF      MWNT       SWNT      Steel
                        Crystal    Std.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tensile Str. - GPa       100       3-7    300-600    300-1500    0.4
Elastic Mod. - GPa      1000     200-800  500-1000  1000-5000  200
Specific Str.- GPa        50       2-4    200-300    150-750     0.05
Specific Mod.- GPa       500     100-400  250-500    500-2500   26
Strain-Failure - %        10       1-3     20-40      20-40     25

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Last edited by khuon; 11-29-04 at 12:39 PM.

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