Carbon frames from the beginning and the future

[T'boo Ted]

I believe the article is only talking about volume production bikes that are all carbon (not carbon tubed/metal lugged)?

 

[legrandefromage]

Dont forget the Raleigh carbon tubed frame from the 1960's otherwise you'll upset someone in Spain.

 

[24pouces]

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Carbon fiber before the seventies ?
Carbon fiber like we know it was developped in rhe sixties and industrial work begun in 1971...
Graftek was one of the first society which develop industrial carbon fiber
But interested if you got pictures or information about the the Raleigh

 

[24pouces]

I believe the article is only talking about volume production bikes that are all carbon (not carbon tubed/metal lugged)?

Francis Glatz ATZ was volume production bike in full carbon fiber

 

[T'boo Ted]

I believe the article is only talking about volume production bikes that are all carbon (not carbon tubed/metal lugged)?

Francis Glatz ATZ was volume production bike in full carbon fiber

So they made 1000's of them?

 

[shedobits]

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Ban all one use plastic


I ride mine lots. :?

 

[24pouces]

I believe the article is only talking about volume production bikes that are all carbon (not carbon tubed/metal lugged)?

Francis Glatz ATZ was volume production bike in full carbon fiber

So they made 1000's of them?

I Don't really how many were built but Francis Glatz made a little production.
But all those first production frame were expensive and too modern for the market. I doubt that ATZ sold a lot of them and Kestrel sold the same MXZ from 1988 to 1990. Perhaps all the frame were made in the first year and 3 years for saling the stock.
Another brand seems to be miss in the article : Graphite technology which made the first Matt Wilander's carbon fiber tennis racket. They became Aegis some years later and worked with Trek for development of OCLV. Their frame was not molded as the Kestrel but built with carbon fiber parts

 

[legrandefromage]

The earliest reference I can find for Raleigh and carbon fibre was an exhibit at the 1971 'Cycle show'.

Theres bugger all out there unless I can find some actual contemporary articles

 

[legrandefromage]

Digging about a bit more, the first 'composite', i.e. glass reinforced fibre was the 1960 Bowden Spacelander

Some sites have it as a steel clamshell but the PDF I'm currently reading from 2001 says otherwise

back to more research!

*and it appears Trek put Kestrel out of business.

 

[legrandefromage]

And incidentally, Bowden was British!

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