Carbon frames from the beginning and the future

[T'boo Ted]

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

Yah, just pointing out that the links really only talking about mass (being proper production, but not necessarily large numbers) produced, also talking about road bikes. Also I guess at the time the powerpoint thing was made, they'd liekely never heard of the Euro stuff. It was just trying to show how carbon production came about and change even in these few years.

Kestrel and Aegis were the same thing, Kestrel was spun out of Aegis when they decide that making monoque one piece frames was the was to go and Aegis stayed with making multi piece frames

 

[danson67]

Carlton Flyer track bike 1971 info:



Closer look at road bike version at road.cc:
https://youtu.be/ugCR53fksjI

Track version in the MCCT article looks to have a carbon fork, too. More conventional fork on the road version in the video.

See also Carlton Reid's Bike Boom book:
http://www.bikeboom.info/carlton/

All the best,

 

[legrandefromage]

Brilliant!

 

[24pouces]

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[tintin40]

This is how modern builders do things

https://cyclingtips.com/2018/01/how-car ... -are-made/