FLASH-POINT BLOG ARCHIVE: Jul 2005

We tried plying material on the cutting table yesterday. Excessive tack prohibited ease of laying full sheets of prepreg together. We will continue to have the laminators ply the material prior to use.

The Tour is happening every day, Lance looks very good for his 7th but from a Zipp perspective, we are very happy for Ivan Basso, Jens Voigt and Dave Zabriskie all having a phenomenal month and CSC having an excellent season. Phonak is also having a great Tour and seems to have the right guy in the right place alot of the time. Race months like this more than compensate for all of those incredibly long development days.
July is always sooo busy with the Tour naturally but it is also the time of year when development must start to wrap up and final specs have to be finalized as the catalogs have to printed and ready for the shows which start very soon. Flash-Points on the road are performing really well, I am super encouraged.

Weighed in the first two sets of FP-40 and FP-60 rims built to production standards.

FP-40s -510g each, drilled and lathed.
FP-60s -580g each, drilled and lathed.

They are molding some more prototype FP-40s today. We'll see how they turn out.

Update: The first five molded poorly. I spoke with the laminator and the next five turned out much better.

Need to investigate material usage in FP-40s. I think that I can adjust the laminate to save some weight and balance the wheel better.