Have your cake and eat it too...
05-05-15, 07:20 PM
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Custom is not mass production.
Custom and rapid production or defined standard configuration and mass production.
The real question is, with sizing varying on mass production bikes by 1-2 cm with adjustability at the human contact points for seat height, setback and angle, and bar height, reach, width.... Does it matter that the bottom bracket is custom made?
the only exception are the over 64cm frame sizes.
Are you a giant? No? Buy standard sizes adjust to fit.
Custom and rapid production or defined standard configuration and mass production.
The real question is, with sizing varying on mass production bikes by 1-2 cm with adjustability at the human contact points for seat height, setback and angle, and bar height, reach, width.... Does it matter that the bottom bracket is custom made?
the only exception are the over 64cm frame sizes.
Are you a giant? No? Buy standard sizes adjust to fit.
05-05-15, 07:39 PM
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Ralf Holleis' VRZ 2 pioneered SLS Ti bike construction, though in a more artistic format. However, it was proof that SLS Ti lug and carbon tube construction could work. This looks like a less labor intensive expression of the process, which lends itself to more rapid turn-around.
05-05-15, 08:12 PM
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Printing bike parts using SLS is not going to be cheap. Those machines are about $500k ballpark, so unless you can borrow someones machine that's going to be prohibitively expensive. There's also the fundamental issue of bonding CF and Ti. Its never going to be the strength of properly welded Ti or a monocoque carbon frame.
Now if you could 3D print monocoque frame moulds that might be something.
Now if you could 3D print monocoque frame moulds that might be something.
05-05-15, 08:34 PM
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The early Trek carbon tube/aluminum lug bikes totally sucked. It's not easy to get it right.
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