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Charge Bikes 2013

Exclusive: Printing Titanium bicycle parts… here's how EADS and Charge do it +video

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The future is printed

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Charge CX bike 6

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Charge Bikes and EADS Innovation Works

I'm watching a machine print some dropouts. It's an expensive machine; if you want one for your shed you'll need to front about half a million pounds. It's printing them in super-hard 6Al/4V titanium alloy, and the design is such that they couldn't be produced any other way. They're optimised for the process, hollow, finite-element-analysed on the computer to be stronger and lighter than anything you could produce on a CNC machine.