Hampshire-based company Dassi Bikes is about to launch the first carbon moulded bike made entirely in the UK, and will be unveiling it at The London Bike Show this week.
Although other companies have designed frames or made elements of carbon bikes in the UK, most production then takes place overseas. Dassi says it's the first company to design, engineer, manufacture and assemble this type of bike entirely in Britain.
The company, which has already ignited global interest with bikes such as the Aero Road 6.2, is pushing its heritage and focus – and its ethos around bike design – under the banner #IndividuallyBritish.
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Dassi has some distinct advantages when it comes to this approach. The first is its engineering pedigree, with founder and CEO Stuart Abbott moving into the bike industry from his previous role as an aerospace engineer with Rolls Royce.
Second, the company has close connections with Formula One in the UK, and has worked closely with leading racing engineers to perfect its framebuilding technique. Dassi also use Formula One grade carbon, and have their own production facility, creating carbon moulds for its frames rather than the standard alloy moulds used by most of the bike industry.
Carbon on carbon
According to Abbott, this carbon-on-carbon manufacturing technique has several specific advantages. Carbon and alloy expand at different rates, but carbon-on-carbon eliminates this variation for a less messy, far more precise process that also requires little post-production finishing (with hand operated sanders and grinders, for instance). All of this helps to eliminate human-influenced variation during production.
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