Bespoke bike maker harnesses additive manufacturing
November 2021
Maintaining the consistency and quality of hand-made titanium bicycle components isn't easy, it takes consummate skill, care and time. Angel Cycle Works challenged Optimus3D to provide a metal additive manufacturing (AM) solution that would produce a chainstay bracket component in a small series quantity to a perfectly uniform quality standard.
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Bespoke bike maker harnesses additive manufacturing [358kB]
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Angel Cycle Works Bicycle [153kB]
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Highlighted inside of the orange rectangle, shows the location of the 3D printed titanium stem component [339kB]
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Renishaw’s RenAM 500S system at the Optimus3D headquarters on the Álava Technology Park in Northern Spain [696kB]
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Comparison of hand-welded chainstay bracket and metal 3D printed component [195kB]
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Analysis of the additively manufactured titanium chainstay bracket using Simufact software [256kB]
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Analysis of the additively manufactured titanium stem component using Simufact software [302kB]
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3D printed titanium chainstay bracket component printed on RenAM 500S system [199kB]