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Have a peek at the dirtworks site ... yummy!
http://www.dirtworks.com.au/newsite/content/view/135/62/
http://www.dirtworks.com.au/newsite/content/view/135/62/
11.3kg (1lb = 0.45 kg)josh123 said:Only 25lbs Anyone know a conversion of that to kilograms?
Geeesss!!!! Its not like they had to design the suspension system, wonder what they spent the money on? Molds are expensive, but $300k?S. said:Apparently they spent about $300,000US developing that frame.
I could see that being spent very easily. 2 x fulltime test riders (hypothetical, I have NFI if that's anything like what they did), a handful of alpha prototypes, all the CAD/CAE/FEA software associated (they do tend to include prices of shit like that because it makes the total figure seem higher and thus more impressive, even though every bike design is likely to need a half decent CAD program at the very minimum), some beta prototypes, fatigue testing dynos of some sort (whether they bought them or hired them or made them, who knows), all the tooling and stuff, telemetry kits and whatnot for real-world testing, proper research into carbon fibre materials and structural analysis (which is a bit of a bitch with CF cos it's not isotropic... I think that's the right word)... if I was gonna make a seriously high end bike like that I reckon I could easily spend $1m on the development and setup.Cave Dweller said:Geeesss!!!! Its not like they had to design the suspension system, wonder what they spent the money on? Molds are expensive, but $300k?