Can you really ride with it? With a bicycle whose spokes are made of textile fibers? Yes, you can. And the engineers at Chemnitz University of Technology, who have developed these lightweights, want to bring the textile spokes to the market soon. But what can the elastic cords better than spokes made of steel?
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Can you really ride with it? With a bicycle whose spokes are made of textile fibers? Yes, you can. And the engineers at Chemnitz University of Technology, who have developed these lightweights, want to bring the textile spokes to the market soon. But what can the elastic cords better than spokes made of steel?