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DOUBLE ORE DOWN TUBE
COLD-FORGING TECHNOLOGY
Cold forging is when you take a hunk of aluminum, put it in a
hardened-steel tool and smack it with thousands of tons of force
to get a part that’s the shape you need with unsurpassed strength.
Every one of the highest-stress elements of our frames relies on
cold forging.
• Look at the Rib Cage, where the BB, main pivot, down tube, seat
tube and shock eye converge. This is the epicenter of the bike.
Cold forging makes it as strong as possible.
• Bits. Every one of our suspension pivots, links and dropouts are
cold forged. You got it…more strength, less weight.
The double ORE (Optimized Radius Engineering) down tube gives
you maximum strength with minimal weight by aligning material
with the forces applied to the frame during rides as well as
providing the most weld-surface area at the highest-stress areas.
The the manipulation at the bottom bracket end lets us drop the
shock attachment, to create the lowest possible center of gravity
for the bike.