http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/nano/2005-08-18-nanotube-breakthrough_x.htm
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Wow you think it wqouldve been all over the news. I want one. But now i have a reason to not buy a carbon bike…ughh, now i need to wait.
most interesting line was that “we could see this in f1 race cars next year”
that means we should see this in bike frames 5 years maybe?
i needed a reason not to blow 3K on the soloist carbon other than it would make me marginally less slow.
some what old news… I think… check out what easton is doing with their delta force bars… something very similar with nano-tech… not sure if it is the same thing though… that article was cool… hook’em horns!!!
Nano-technology is not exactly new, and is in use by several bike related companies (and by “in use” I mean either by their engineers or their marketeers, because as usual there is a lot of fluff surrounding yet another buzz word). It’s one of those things where “this great new technology is ten times as stiff and strong”, yet the product weighs the same as another product that doesn’t use the technology. Go figure. But a true, useful application of nano-technology is pretty interesting.
Never mind the bike potential, I want the synthetic muscles. I could become a climber!!
And how cool would it be to have a bike that lights up…