Carl Strong Carbon Fiber Sucks at Threads Obviously we love carbon fiber. After all, it’s the material we chose to make our bikes. Carbon fiber has many characteristics that make it ideal for bikes; lightweight, strong, and highly “tunable”. ... Carbon Tech Feb 28, 2022
Jared Nelson Everyone Hates a Know-It-All... We at Pursuit believe that an expert is not someone who knows all the answers, but instead knows the right questions to ask. As noted below, I definitely do not know all the answers surrounding compos... Carbon Tech Feb 28, 2022
Carl Strong How a Carbon Bike is Made There are almost as many methods for making a carbon bike as there are manufacturers. I think it’s fair to say that there is still a lot to be learned. That’s the fun part, there is plenty of room for... Carbon Tech Feb 28, 2022
Jared Nelson How a Composite Tube May Differ From a Metal Tube So we left off last time discussing anisotropy ; specifically how a composite tube may differ from a metal tube. We have defined anisotropy as having different properties or responses in different dir... Carbon Tech Feb 28, 2022
Carl Strong Your Carbon Bike is Made From Dinosaurs I’m going to do a little 4 part mini-series on carbon fiber materials. In this first article we’ll cover where the actual individual fibers come from and in following articles we’ll discuss types of f... Carbon Tech Feb 28, 2022
Jared Nelson Advanced Bike Tech: Stressing the Importance of Measuring Strain Advanced Bike Tech Carbon fiber frames are lightweight, but how light is too light? It requires a lot of engineering to make sure your frame is light and strong. It has been a little while, but last w... Carbon Tech Feb 28, 2022
Kyle Rohan High Performance is More Than Just Modulus My name is Kyle and I am the guy that spends the most time with Carl building here at Pursuit Cycles. In today’s post we will be covering the thing that makes up the majority of your bike. Carbon fibe... Carbon Tech Feb 28, 2022
Kyle Rohan Fibers That Play Together Stay Together This is my 3rd installment of the four part series on carbon fiber composite materials. This one is on the matrix that holds it all together. Previous posts talked about making raw carbon , and how ca... Carbon Tech Feb 28, 2022
Jared Nelson The ABD's of Composite Laminates It has been a while, but don’t worry, my students have been giving me plenty of blank stares in the meantime. Seriously, I am teaching a course this semester called Design of Machine Elements which I ... Carbon Tech Feb 28, 2022
Carl Strong Our Super Secret Tricoque™ Technology (SSTT) Because I just learned how to add the (™) I feel compelled to trademark something. Seems the industry likes to throw around the term “monocoque” quite a bit so I’m going to mix it up. At Pursuit we em... Carbon Tech Feb 28, 2022
Carl Strong Small Companies QC Do you ever wonder how smaller companies ensure they are making safe bikes and/or implementing quality control?? In traditional custom frame shops we have historically relied on the craftsman’s attent... Carbon Tech Feb 28, 2022
Jeff Wyatt "Simplicity is Not the Absence of Clutter" By: Jeff Wyatt – Pinion Engineering My first meeting with Carl was technical discussions, angles, lengths, diameters, widths – a lot of detailed sketching – discussion. However, it was what was unsaid... Carbon Tech Feb 28, 2022
