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Charge Bikes

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.

Charge Bikes 2013

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Charge Bikes 2013: New titanium cyclo-cross frame, Plug 3 and Grater

Next year's new bikes, saddles and clothing from Charge

Video: Red Bull Hill Chasers 2012… take 2

Charge Bikes video captures the action and the atmosphere from a great night on Park Street

First look: Charge 2012 range launch Pt 2

Urban MTBs, new women specific utility bikes, 2012 Tap and Mixer + more

First look: Charge 2012 range launch Pt 1

New Plugs + 2013 Plug sneak peek, New cycle to work 'cross bike + Hob goes 3speed

Charge Filter Hi

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£1199.99

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Charge Filter Hi - riding 2

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Charge Filter Hi 2011

There's no doubting the Charge Filter Hi is a capable bike. It's lively on tarmac and assured off road too. The higher spec bike as tested here has a bit of an identity crisis though. It's not light enough to really be attractive to racers and it's no more versatile than its cheaper stablemate, which looks the better bet if you're after a steel all-rounder.