On Your Bike

This years Tour de France will feature the first bicycle frames incorporating carbon nanotubes. Manufacturers BMC claim that their “Pro Machine is the first bicycle frame in the world which is made entirely using the revolutionary Easton CNT-Nanotechnology.”

Don’t be fooled by the over enthusiastic press releases though, the frame is actually a composite containing nanotubes rather than being made entirely from the tubes themselves!

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