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New Zealand-based Vélos Developments is constructing its new Holocene street bike from recycled Toray carbon fiber. In response to Vélos, its focus is on “taking a novel and presumably world-first strategy to manufacturing its vary of race bikes from waste, recycled and surplus Toray carbon fibre supplied to them by SailGP Applied sciences and the New Zealand aerospace business.”
The carbon fiber sheeting scraps retained from the boats and plane are saved in a freezer till they’re wanted, because the scraps will in any other case degrade over time.
Vélos founder Dan Burrows defined that the normal course of could be for SailGP to treatment its scraps and ship them for use in cast carbon fiber or to a landfill. Recycling the scraps into cast carbon fiber is an enchancment over sending them to the landfill however continues to be a really vitality intensive course of when in comparison with Vélos’s course of.
“There are not any points with utilizing recycled fibre though for body constructing, not all carbon is equal. There are solely sure weight and modulus fibres that we are able to use to construct an optimised race body,” stated Burrows. “We choose solely what we are able to use within the body and all different fibre is diverted to different merchandise the place weight and efficiency should not as necessary, resembling our carbon fibre bike packing containers/journey circumstances.”
When explaining how the carbon fiber provider was chosen, Burrows stated, “The efficiency attributes are precisely the identical as one can find in any high-end performance-orientated race bike. In spite of everything, we’re utilizing the identical provider and the identical carbon as many of the large gamers: Toray.”
The body of the Holocene street bike is one piece with no joints, resulting in a stiffer body with decrease weight and superior trip high quality. Solely 100 customized manufactured Holocene Superbikes might be obtainable starting in 2024.
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