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Grahameeboy
24th March 2006, 15:26
Imagine if they could make motorbike frames out of this??
bugjuice
24th March 2006, 15:28
what, out of 5 cell phones?
be awfully small..
hazard02
24th March 2006, 15:30
Theres something to be said when we start weighing things in units of cellphones.....
Insanity_rules
24th March 2006, 15:30
That would be insane!!!! Imagine riding a bike with a frame as light as 5 cell phones.
Sniper
24th March 2006, 15:30
LMAO at Buggy, but yea, I wouldn't trust a frame that is too light. Besides, its like saying why aren't aeroplanes made out of the same stuff as Black boxes?
bugjuice
24th March 2006, 15:31
wouldn't handle nice anyway. You need some weight to keep the thing stable at speed

snipe - cos BBs iz heavy, dumbass..
Grahameeboy
24th March 2006, 15:32
what, out of 5 cell phones?
be awfully small..

you have not been drinking enough coffe have ya.........the weight of, not the size of........:argh:
Grahameeboy
24th March 2006, 15:34
wouldn't handle nice anyway. You need some weight to keep the thing stable at speed

snipe - cos BBs iz heavy, dumbass..

But But.....the wheels and engine would add to the weight.....I wonder how much a Moto GP frame weighs.....could be interesting........
bugjuice
24th March 2006, 15:36
as much as 9 testicles
Grahameeboy
24th March 2006, 15:38
as much as 9 testicles

Certainly not MDU's then...........
Fishy
24th March 2006, 15:40
It wasn't stated what model of cell phone, shit if it were out of the brick model...no thanks!. be like riding a bus!..you ever tried using one of the old ones?
Finn
24th March 2006, 15:45
The hospital put one of these down my grandma's throat last week to feed her. Was that a nanatube?

Seriously, she was badly burnt. It was horrible.
Marmoot
24th March 2006, 15:49
In 1970s they manage to do it, by making the cellphone size much bigger than what it is now.
**R1**
24th March 2006, 16:16
Id still rather have the Britten frame..
FlyingDutchMan
24th March 2006, 16:18
Nanotubes are crazily small and wickly strong - not to mention you can stick absolutely insane electrical currents through them.! When I doing research into nanotech was at uni I kept a pretty close on that stuff. I'd imagine that they'd use it in a similar way as carbon fibe and weave into sheets. And if they ever start producing nanotube field emssion displays, they'll be wicked! Have the brightness of a CRT, higher resolution, insanely fast response time etc.

Only problem: they currently charge about $1000+ a gram. And they're too short at the moment (0.1mm is the longest produced that I know of).
bugjuice
24th March 2006, 16:19
My nano holds 2500 songs :bleh:
my phone holds 50.
my bike doesn't hold any.

I'm sorry, I'm bored.
imdying
24th March 2006, 16:21
Id still rather have the Britten frame..
The Britten had a frame? :lol: Seriously though, it's a shame the Japanese haven't made a Britten knock off, that'd be dead sexy :)
Grahameeboy
24th March 2006, 16:22
The hospital put one of these down my grandma's throat last week to feed her. Was that a nanatube?

Seriously, she was badly burnt. It was horrible.

:clap: .......that is the best this week Mr Finn.........
Finn
24th March 2006, 16:25
:clap: .......that is the best this week Mr Finn.........

You're laughing at my Nana's misfortune? Her burns we're terrible.
Karma
24th March 2006, 16:27
It'd be a fast bike, but you'd get cancer from the microwaves and RSI from all that txting...
Coyote
24th March 2006, 16:44
What is this nanotube tech? Got any links?
marty
24th March 2006, 16:51
what sort of bike frame? my kestrel frame (only) is probably as light as 2 sanyo 7100's. it's all the bits added to it that make it weigh.
FlyingDutchMan
24th March 2006, 17:51
For those who want to blinded by science: http://www.pa.msu.edu/cmp/csc/nanotube.html
And a somewhat easier to understand information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotube