Hasta La Ideas

This video could’ve done with some sound (and less distracting editing), but it provides an interesting look at how a carbon-fiber bicycle comes together. France’s Time Bicycles uses a manufacturing process called Resin Transfer Molding, which involves drawing the resin into the fibers at the mold, and claims to be “the only cycling designer that has perfectly mastered this fabrication process.” The way the video is shot admittedly renders parts of the production quite dull, but at least check out the trippy machines in the beginning that weave the carbon strands together:

via product by process

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