I see they lost their vowels like Canyon. It’s a global conspiracy !Introducing the next "Sick Bikes" of the world.
When popping nipples isn't enough!
ZLV Industries (formerly Zelvy) has put down the spoke wrench to pick up a welder in order to bring "Chinese made" to the Australian market.
If you want the thrill of random weld failure every ride and dont really like emails and phone calls answered, this will be the frame for you!
mmmmm.... curvy.And for something even more brazen!
Are making a full suspension frame that you can get on a pre sales list for.
The curves don't do it for me, kinda looks wrong and 2009, like this:And for something even more brazen!
Are making a full suspension frame that you can get on a pre sales list for.
It's an amazing (but disgusting) process isn't it? And that's almost industry leading lay-up techniques with proper pre-preg sheets, minimal sheet layering and minimized resin use. Interesting they skipped showing the removal of the polystyrene bladder form fillers - That would general involve some nasty chemicals I would imagine. Would be fascinating (and possibly scary) to see the difference in techniques and wastage between this approach and the cheap Chinese/Taiwanese frames though, as the approach with them seems to be more along the lines of lather it in resin and slap sheets on and trim by hand as needed.Not new but wow, building a frame using this technique is an ugly process!
Being so much smaller than the outer walls of the frame I think the polystyrene is only used to give a rough form for the carbon lay-up to be built upon. Once the carbon is laid onto it, resin is applied to the carbon*, the mould assembled, and then the mould is put into the autoclave (oven) and the internal bladder (bag) pressurised to press the carbon hard against the mould while the resin cures.I was watching the vid trying to work out how the foam mold things & bags were removed, I assumed they stayed?
Partly that I suspect, but probably the majority of the editing motivation is to not show all the chemicals and wastage involved (I'm not saying I'm a envirosaint here, I've bought a few carbon frames in the past as you know). Always a point worthy of mention with carbon IMO.Yeah maybe they just left out the steps they wanted to keep secret?
Who' da thunk we would read an XC bike article even if a bonus ye olde Heckler is in there
They've been around since at least 1996...As time rolls on, it does seem like a quiver killer will appear that can be XC efficient but have d00d like character for the gnar. It is good that MTB's are still evolving and improving overtime. Just sorting out the marketing speak vs. reality is the trick.