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Bicycle Riding can be a Smooth Experience Thanks to Novel Carbon Technology
While spring-loaded seat posts, which absorb the worst shocks, and make the ride more comfortable for the back, have long been in the market, but they have not been too friendly for an average buyer's pockets.
But the new CFRP seat post makes sure that rising a bike on the most diffcult of terrains could be a cake-walk.
"A hardtail mountain bike with this new kind of CFRP seat post rides as if it were a full suspension bike," says triathlon world champion Daniel Unger after a test drive.
In September, the component earned the Eurobike Award at the Eurobike 2009 trade show in Friedrichshafen and in Stuttgart, the high-tech post has been nominated for the 2009 AVK Award for Innovation.
The seat post was designed at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Chemical Technology ICT in Pfinztal as part of Fraunhofer's innovation cluster known as "KITe hyLITE - Technologies for Hybrid Lightweight Construction".
"The impetus for this came from our colleague and bicycle enthusiast, Sergei Belaew. The component is based on two CFRP profiles that work like laminated springs. In this respect, the spring rigidity was calibrated to keep the deflection within the 10 to 15 millimeter range. That tangibly augments rider comfort," said group manager Oliver Geiger, who handles the implementation of the flexible seat post in Professor Frank Henning's department.
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