Bike Frame Uses Nanotube Technology, Light as Five Cellphones

**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

Originally Posted by bugjuice

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........

**Grahameeboy** · 24th March 2006, 15:34

Originally Posted by bugjuice

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

Originally Posted by bugjuice

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).

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