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Is This 3D Printed Titanium Bike The Most Beautiful Bike In The World?
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- Опубліковано 12 сер 2024
- 3D printing has been around for a number of years now, but 3D printed bike frames have always been a bit hit and miss...until now! Ollie was lucky enough to visit the workshop of legendary frame builder, Tom Sturdy, to check out his latest creation: A custom titanium bike using 3D printed lugs. This frame is an amazing feat of engineering, and it might just be one of the best looking bikes we've ever seen.
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Would you ride this beautiful 3D Printed Titanium bike? Let us know in the comments below!
yes. It's a very cool bike
If they made an aero version, I'll would get one in a heartbeat
I would ride it in a heartbeat. What a beautiful bike.
Unconditionally! But will watch the video anyway!
Who would not?
This is lovely because it’s more like the wonderful stuff GCN used to do with you and Jon.
Oh how we all miss Jon
IF 3D printed means - cheaper titanium bikes then YES it is HOT
Ermmm...presently Ti frames are not more expensive than carbon ones.
Agreed. TI bikes, at least stateside, are insanely expensive. $6-7k for a frameset.
@@tonyg3091 yeah xD captain obvious! some are even cheaper like planext x.. but still most of titanium frames are too expensive or overpriced.. or both :D
Ahah go believe it... if you apply that to carbon ones, they are getting expensivier each new year..
It will be a decade or so probably before it'll be an affordable option. But. One of the huge benefits it that there is no complex tooling / molds. Like carbon and alloy frames that have all the hyroformed tubes as well as much more welds. No tooling investment means they can change / improve / customize the bike easier and faster.. more different sizes can be made...
Been following Sturdy for years, great to see him get some great exposure for his awesome talent!
In my opinion this is the first bike that justify the price!! It is an engineering masterpieces!
True fact though
That gets a Supernice™ from me. That fork especially is a thing of beauty.
Seriously fab bike...thank you for showing this to us...it is expensive...but for a unique bike it's what you would expect
Find someone in your life that looks at you in the same way Ollie looks at Tom at 9:44....
It's pretty hilarious when combined with the music; this looks like some old Merchant Ivory film about repressed longing.
You are amazing says Ollie in his eyes!!!
@@merckxy54 the embodiment of the emoji, 😍.
thanks for the wholesome laugh
As an engineering student who is doing its thesis about 3D printed titanium and as a fanatic amateur cyclist I say YES
What do you say to the strength aspect? That point wasn't really answered at all in the interview.
@@zipfelchefchen6816 doubling on this.
Someone please give this man a lot of money so he can scale the production so I can someday buy this beauty.
If he is of the same breed like Florian Wiesmann (famous custom MTB builder from Switzerland), he definitely has absolutely no interest at all in mass production...
We helped Sturdy with their development on this - fantastic to see the finished article. Here's an overview of the development process - ua-cam.com/video/4Ga77SL5XUU/v-deo.html
evotechcae.com/sturdy-cycles-novel-use-of-additive-manufacture-in-road-frame-development/
My crank arm has just gone extremely stiff.
Did you KOM?
That’s called cramp from stroking your 3D printed stem 😂
@@brauljo :))))
This is the most beautiful bike I have ever seen.
i've always loved titanium bikes, even over carbon. a disc-braked titanium bike originally designed as a gravel bike is a little slower than a carbon-based road bike but is far more versatile - you can put wider tires on the thing and it makes a great off-road bike as well.
MTBer here - who is terrified to and will never ride on public roads, I just wanted to say that this bike is absolutely phenomenal.... F1 of bikes.
If you ride early Sunday morning public roads are pretty much empty :)
I think that Bastion, the Australian company was the first to use 3D printed components in bikes to final customer. They blend 3D printed titanium lugs with carbon tubes to make an amazing bike. All the frames are custom made!
First interesting bike I’ve seen in the past couple of years. Would love to see more detail in his assembly process. Great job.
Check out Bastion's work.
😉
Did anyone else notice how Ollie's voice got extra excited and joy-filled when he said the word "Aero." 🚴
One of the very best GCN videos ever; Tom - eloquent superhero, Oli - enthusiastic and all the right questions, the bike - a gorgeous jawdropping masterpiece. Now, how does it ride?
Someone would be a fool not to partner with this man to provide him a factory and the tools to do his craft!!!
Probably the most beautiful bike I have ever seen 😍
First time I've seen a bike that expensive and immediately thought it's 100% justified. Absolutely love this engineering approach, it's beautiful.
That's my dream setup. Titanium, no cables out, one by groupset. Look how clean and elegant it is 🤩🤩
That bike looks STUNNING
WOW Ollie.......thats an amazing piece of art...thats rideable. Thanks for sharing. The future? Maybe
Amazing build! Stunning use of titanium. Truly the next level in custom metal framebuilding.
You say that you hadn't seen a titanium fork on a bike before, but in fact the largest titanium bike manufacturer in the USA "Lynskey" have been offering them on their bikes for about 20 years now.
Hi thanks for the knowledge really appreciate.
Work of art, that.
So "simple", so clean..................sooooo BEAUTIFUL !!!!
get one to Sagan and let's see his sprint on it 😁
Wow. Beautiful work Tom. And great video Ollie. Amazing.
A piece of art
there's simply no other way to describe that bike than beautiful
Defo the most stunning bike have seen in ages!!!
This guy lives in my town. Met him in the local bike shop. His bike was EPIC 👌🏼
Did not expect a titanium fork. This is amazing.
The use of video of FDM printing is misleading. This is SLS (Selective Laser Sintering) and is not the same process as shown in this video. No you won’t be able to do this at home even if you can weld Ti. You’d need to send the design off to a SLS house to print in a giant vat of titanium powder. And you pay for that entire vat of powder regardless of how little you use to make the object.
That's what I was thinking too. I think they did it because it's easy to see, while you can't see anything during the SLS process.
@@michaelmechex I feel Ollie missed a golden opportunity to incorporate videos of lasers with him making pew pew pew sounds.
Actually this process is EBM, not SLS, built on an ARCAM Q10.
For both SLS and EBM you do not pay for the entire chamber of powder, the powder is very simply reclaimed for use, you pay for the machine time, a small portion of powder (between £100-£200 per kg, depending on material) and the skill of the AM engineer who is setting up the build.
No lasers involved, just electron beams.
Not sure how showing a FDM printer means thats how the bike is built.
Yes and the questionable value of using titanium in the first place is greatly reduced by the fact that it's notoriously brittle where is hasn't been carefully heat treated for annealing and tempering. Such as welds. Of which this mix and match design has many. For a start only a few parts are 3d sintered. The rest is welded to normal pipes. It's the long way around to produce an inferior product. Justified by claiming some parts have to be wacky shapes, which isn't even true. Ollie might only be an organic chemist but even he should know being forced into dodgy heat treatments on metals is both polluting and expensive. Titanium is energetically very expensive to produce normally. For this tech, first you have to make it pure. Then you have to grind it into a powder then you have to melt it back into a solid. Then you have to melt the ends to join them. This is only ever going to be a niche technique. Hang it on the wall with the other models.
Beautiful, simply beautiful. I do love a titanium bike-in fact I bought 2 last year, a Sonder Signal Ti hardtail 29er in February, and a Planet X Ti Tempest gravel bike in October.......
To add to my previous comment that posted prematurely, this machine takes the beauty to a whole other level.
Yes it will become part of the future for titanium and steel bike frame Manufacturing along with hydro Forming.
This is the future of bike manufacturing.
Although 3D printing carbon fiber is very very difficult
Very interesting video. I do hope GCN makes more videos like this in the future. Some single speed-fixed gear content would also be nice. There's interesting topics there too, without overlapping with road bikes
The day I can print one of these at home will be a happy day.
I don’t think you can print a whole bike ,just some of the components 👍🏻
There is nothing Jeff can't do if he puts his mind to it.
Just the lugs, then you have to be a good Ti welder to get the tubes between them. Look up prices on Direct Sintering machines. This guy made a pretty big investment.
@@okantichrist Not now, no. Someday though.
If Star Trek has taught me anything. :-)
the chainring is beautiful. would like to shimano make something like that for their groupset. should be very light.
Tom's bikes are always gorgeous but that one is absolutely stunning and looks like a "proper" (read steel 😉) bike but with modern, fluid joints. I can't stop looking at it. I love the texture change between the drawn tubes and the printed lug work too.... So cool.
Just as Ollie says: classy.
❤️
I am more than impressed. Nice job. Very nice.
Wonderful instructive video...good job hosting my friend...and without a script?! Impressive
Beautiful piece of engineering.
I respect and understand the simplicity of the single chain ring but for me, make it a compact double and it’s perfect. Absolutely love the material craftsmanship. I own a Moots Routt RSL and love it. Had a Pinarello Dogma 2 for several years and the Moots has become my one bike, all road and Swiss Army knife of any bicycle I’ve ever owned. Peace.
Stunning ride. Looking forward to seeing some 3d printed ti mechs
Love the bike and really enjoyed the video (thanks Ollie + gcn crew).
My preference would be to see zero paint (maximum naked titanium beauty), carbon forks and a Campagnolo groupset. I guess this is the joy of building a bike yourself, you have a world of options to choose from.
You can build a wonderful titanium bike to your own spec for a huge amount less money than the one in this video... I really recommend everyone with a reasonable amount of knowledge and practical skill to give it a go as it is sooooo rewarding. 🙂
Didn't Ollie say it was anodized.
@@And-rc9yy you are correct about the frame being anodised. I was merely trying to articulate (poorly) that I prefer no colour added to my frame (paint or anodised or other).
@@ianpalmer4790 Ah well I completely agree with you there. Bare titanium is very sexy.
I've been riding ti for years . Tried carbon and went back to ti. Nice Video.
that is an absolutely awesome bike
oh my god! that is truly next-level and very beautiful.
That thing is seriously beautiful 🤩
Stunning. EADS have have 3D printing components from Ti for years. Many others also. Really cool. Would love one.
great video and work. I am riding a custom made titanium frame from the Swiss manufacturer highlite. 3D is interesting here but I miss these weldings on a traditional frame I have to say.
Nicest bike of the decade. Even in 10 years it will be hard to top this.
I have a Brompton Titanium folding bike (four speed) , it has fenders, a carbon fork and carbon crank arms. I am no expert at all, but I love how simply it folds up to a third of its size and weighs 7.95 kilos. I think it rides exceptionally well.
9:42 I want a woman who looks at me the way Oli looks at that bike
8:50 I'm sure the welds are strong enough and all that but the idea of having a joint 1/3 of the way down the fork blade just gives me the fear. Probably completely irrational of me but still...
very beautiful
piece of art that bike.
What a beauty! The first metal bike that matches carbon’s beauty. Almost up there with the likes of Bastion Cycles & the Métier Velo.
I would prefer finer and more tapering chain stats, compatibility with both mudguards (this one appears to have them) and racks, both front and rear, a headlight mount, internal dynamo cable routing, a low-profile breakaway design akin to that of the 22 Cycles, internally-routed hydraulic frame decouplers, top tube mounts and 4 - rather than 2 - down tube bottle cage mounts - and a more sloping top tube.
Beauty is a personal thing .
Big props to the editor on this video!
That drop from seat to handlebars looks extreme!
I thought same. My back, shoulders and wrists hurt just looking at it. 😂
That's how you build the "marketing special".
😉
Some cyclists are actually fit.
@@tomhughes8472 - The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.
-Spock
@@stuffhappens5681 cool. Seems completely irrelevant to Francesco not being flexible enough to ride this bike.
That is the super nice of all time
Love it, incedible bike
Would I ride - absolutely. Then I would hang it on the wall and admire the work of art!
It's absolutely beautiful, it's also absolutely expensive for most people in this planet
Best video you’ve done Ollie. My bike is a Ti rim bike which is a kilo heavier than that beauty. He’s a real craftsman. Total respect ✊ Way out of my price range. But one can but dream. Thanks 🙏
SUPER NICE
I love Ti. It is superb. I randomly dream of a Ti bike, but would only want it natural finished as I really don’t like the blue here.
what a work of art! amazing!
Ultimate dream bike.
3d printed is a bit misleading considering all the machine work that takes place afterwards. More like 40% of some of the frame components have been 3d printed is more accurate.
agree - tubes welded to printed joints does not a printed bike make. Still .....wow
@@MattMediaAU You don't want to print tubes. Much more $/kg and lower strength.
@@appa609 For sure and understood. My point was given the tubes are not printed can you really call it a printed frame? Seems more accurate to describe it as a "regular" frame with printed lugs doesn't it?
Very very beautiful
Before seing this video I wasn't really a fan of titanium bikes, though I must say this bike changed my mind. 3D printing titanium makes a lot of sense and I would love to ride one of these in the future.
Wow yes please, beautiful
I think Ollie's in love! 🥰🥰 don't blame him.
amazing bike!
Really great video, such a cool process and beautiful bike
cleanest bike ever made.
change my mind.
Beautiful! No22 titanium bikes are laser etched too-beautiful, but $$$$$!
Really cool tech and bike. Love it!
Absolutely stunning.
Looks a treat, well-kitted and light, but £10K for a bike makes it a rich man's toy
Absolutely gorgeous work.
Fantastic bike more videos like this!
I would ride it. I've been riding the same Litespeed Ti Classic since 1994...just keep upgrading the components. I probably have 75,000 miles on it. I also have a nice steel bike and a great carbon bike. This video has really piqued my interest. Thanks for taking the time to highlight this amazing technology.
Absolutely incredible!
that is some bike pure class.
I'd ride it in a heart beat. Love the look.
Steel tubes are drawn to get the crystals to align and the strength properties that they desire. Aluminum frames are heat treated to get the material to respond correctly. At the 6-minute point , the manufacturer addresses mechanical properties. He says that all these manufacturers use slightly different techniques. He says that the manufacturers hold on to that information. Therefore you don't know what you're buying.
Hasn't Ozzie brand Bastion been 3D printing Ti lugs on their frames for 4-5 years? Also, Merlin came out with Ti forks back in the 90s and they quickly abandoned them when they would flex so much under braking, the front wheel would rub against the down tube. Hopefully this dude can tune the stiffness to avoid that.
btw, love the idea of an all-titanium bike, gotta admit though that this reminded me of hot black desiato's all black ship in the restaurant at the end of the universe:
``Every time you try to operate on of these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you've done it. What is this? Some kind of galactic hyperhearse?''
The walls of the swaying cabin were also black, the ceiling was black, the seats --- which were rudimentary since the only important trip this ship was designed for was supposed to be unmanned --- were black, the control panel was black, the instruments were black, the little screws that held them in place were black, the thin tufted nylon floor covering was black, and when they had lifted up a corner of it they had discovered that the foam underlay also was black.
Impressionante. Bellissimo progetto.
Personally speaking it would have been a great introduction to know how Tom got to where he is now? From School to College Uni. How he got into design and build etc... Good interview though.
Most likely a Mechanical Engineer to me who applied for an entrepeneurship project or has a rich family
Wow 👏 very nice 👌