For the industry pros and engineers (again)

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OK, this will be the 2nd to last time for me to post this prior to Wednesday, April 16th :slight_smile:

http://www.velonews.com/article/74491/webinar-for-bike-industry-engineers-announced

I am also working with these guys for a printed article on how bike companies moving up to a Nastran based (read: aerospace grade) analysis & simulation tool are making better and safer products for consumers: http://www.bicycleretailer.com/news/newsDetail/1182.html

Amazingly, right now bike industry pros make up approximately 10% of those registered for the event (although about 60% are still aerospace engineers and designers).

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There was an article in the March issue of Design World about NEi on bike frames…
I was hoping for more from the article, as it was just a general overview of their software. The magizine had such an awesome covershot of a guy on a cervelo that after reading the article I was left asking “is that it?” hah. Guess I was looking for the insiders view on bike frame design.

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nope, you won’t get any additional info other than what Gerard and others post on here. We are covered by non-disclosures with all the bike companies so we can’t give out specific information - other than saying who IS using advanced engineering tools. The list continues to grow as bike industry people want to:

  1. reduce time to market by reducing the prototyping/testing stage (which, if you know the industry, can be extremely painful for these poor engineers should they need to have multiple prototypes - but it takes a week or two between tests and that put them further down the production schedule list, or they actually have to fly over there - which could cost a few thousand dollars every time they do that)
  2. build better/safer products. This is definitely more prevalent with the composite engineers, as that is our uniqueness in the market (most composite design/analysis software costs upwards of $40-60,000 U.S.). The fact that mountain bike companies are interested now because they can also analyze their complete frame and suspension assemblies is just an added bonus :slight_smile:

…and the article must have been partially successful, we don’t want to give away everything, we usually want you to call/email us to get more info. I guess it lacked the compelling “hook” :wink: Oh, and I believe that was Cervelo’s shot of Carlos Sastre.