03.28.06
Nanotechnology moves into lightweight bicycles
Easton sports has launched the worlds first bike featuring nanotechnology products.
The bike is 23% lighter than the previous lightest model and weighs just 960 grams.
The Van Nuys, California-based firm introduced the first aluminium products into sports equipment the 1930s and moved into composite materials in the 1980s (a little behind F1 technology at the time). Now, however, Easton is ahead of the game again with the launch of a bicycle featuring carbon nanotube technology. Carbon nanotubes are tiny cylinders of carbon atoms that have 100 times the strength of steel but weigh considerably less.
