Derek from Lahr Cycles posted the development photos on his homemade bike frame at the ride monkey forums. It’s really interesting to see that you don’t need much to create a working model, from here, it can only get better. Way to go Derek. Check the finished model at the forum thread.

If it looks as awesome as the amazingly crafted C-Thru Bike from BME, I am afraid it does.

The C-thru road frame is made from solid carbon rods carefully bonded together into its geometry. BME is the effort of the Slovakian engineer Brano Meres who has been experimenting among other things, with bamboo/carbon fiber constructions.

Now what would happen if we added a little bit of biology’s intelligence to Brano Meres’ construction?
Lets say, some adaptive design strategies regarding the spacing and dimension of the carbon rods….what do you think?

Nature puts material only where its needed… so there is a variation in the density of structures, always. Are the forces equal along the top tube of a Road Bike? If not…There could be some generative design patterns being applied to the construction defining its shape in relationship to the forces acting upon it…

Steffen R? What do you think? Ansys meets Generative Components meets Bike frame?

Give it up for Brano Meres. Amazing work, congratulations!

This was small exaple of product development collaboration:

Last year we received a beautiful carbon skateboard deck from a material research institute in the University of Clausthal in Germany. Our job was to test it and say what we think of the new board because those guys from the institute are good in making things light, but they don´t know nothing about riding boards! The riders: Nico Hopp, Lars Mayer, Simon Schlör and myself have had lots of fun helping them understanding what was good and what could be better in the board. We made a nice video that was send to the university researchers with images of the board in action together with each riders toughts. The video will be posted soon here in Lets Evo Blog.