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07/13/2025
Explode your derailleur? Bend your cage? We got you. Katana test bikes are available for derailleur refugees and everyone else. Experience the world's only derailleur that is guaranteed to remain intact while you ride.
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06/01/2025
We did some skinny impact testing for an upcoming video. Nothing on the Katana was harmed in the making of the video, but I can’t say the same as the other bike with a regular derailleur. We did it for science so that’s ok. 🙂
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Carbon parts are made from many two-dimensional pieces of carbon stacked onto a three-dimensional shape. The carbon starts as a flexible, sticky fabric with epoxy pre-impregnated into it, called prepreg, and the epoxy becomes hard after curing in an oven. A tricky part of making carbon bike frames is taking the complex 3D shapes of the frame design and converting them into flat patterns that can be cut out of a sheet of prepreg. So bike frames technically go from being a 3D thing to a 2D thing and then back to a 3D thing. And in case you’re wondering, I didn’t suddenly acquire a South African accent - Alex is talking in the video. He’s the composites wizard at Lal!
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