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For the same reasons carbon fiber is so useful and popular in the
aerospace industry, it serves as an ideal material for bicycles and
cycling shoes. In addition to being incredibly lightweight, carbon
features remarkable strength, stiffness, durability and versatility.
Carbon’s main engineering advantages stem from its tensile
strength properties. All LUST bikes and shoes are designed
to keep carbon in tension as much as possible—in order to optimize
these properties and create a super strong, ultra light product.
With 17 years of experience with aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, LUST’s
Bart Sheldrake is highly qualified to work with carbon and to maximize
its tensile properties.
Internal/External Filament-Wound
Lug System
[Road, Cyclocross and Tandem Bicycles]
All of our bicycles have a remarkable lug system found
only on LUST bikes. With this system, LUST has
mastered the joining process with less bulk, less weight and greater
strength than industry-standard lugs.
LUST’s lug system employs multiple carbon
fiber filaments, each individually woven in tension around each joint.
This custom carbon lug incorporates internal and external filaments—providing
greater tube/joint bonding surface.
This increased bonding surface increases the stability,
strength, integrity, stiffness and reliability of the bike. LUST’s
exclusive weave pattern further stabilizes the tubes, controlling
the frame’s twisting and bending.
LUST bicycles are the only bikes on the market
with these remarkable lugs. And because the lug is so efficient, LUST can
utilize varying tube sizes when the power or size of the rider requires
a more robust structure—and still save weight on the overall
bicycle.
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Custom Carbon Drop-outs
[Road, Cyclocross and Tandem Bicycles]
Every LUST bike gains integrity and drops
unnecessary weight with custom carbon dropouts for seating the back
wheel axle.
Each LUST frame is engineered and built with
carbon dropouts rather than metal (typically aluminum) dropouts.
The carbon-to-carbon bond is stronger, stiffer and structurally more
desirable than the industry practice of bolting carbon seat stays
to standard metal dropouts.
The carbon-to-carbon bond advantage comes from a common
coefficient of thermal expansion and the propensity to bond between
like materials. In other words, the variance in the thermal expansion
coefficients of carbon and metal is less than optimal. But the carbon-to-carbon
bond has superior thermal expansion and bonding characteristics.
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Bundled Tube Technology (BTT)
[Tandem Bicycles]
Controlling forces like torsion (twisting) and moments
(bending) is key for any bicycle long enough to support two riders.
While most tandem bicycles employ oversized tubing in an attempt
to resist these forces, LUST has invented BTT to overcome
this typical drawback.
LUST bicycles control torsion and moments
by bundling lightweight carbon tubes in crucial areas, such as the
boom tube.
The bigger around a carbon tube, the more torsional
force it can withstand. Rather than building bicycles with mechanically
impossible single large tubes, BTT combines smaller-diameter carbon
tubes in order to maximize torsion control.
For example, LUST’s tandem boom tube
bundles three smaller-diameter tubes together. The effective torsional
strength of these bundled tubes is equivalent to that of one incredibly
large tube—one that would be too large to actually utilize
as a boom tube.
And BTT’s bundling process adds no extra weight to the tandem frame.
In fact, for the same amount of torsional control, it actually weighs less
than other tubes.
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Individual Fit and Lay-up
Schedule
[Cycling Shoes]
Built around the custom mold of a cyclist’s foot,
the entire shell of each LUST cycling shoe is made with
carbon fiber and Kevlar. These lightweight, durable and stiff materials
can be molded into any shape, and they can be used for structural
reinforcement in any direction or area.
Working with these materials, the designer has full
flexibility to reinforce the structure exactly where needed and in
the most ideal axis. LUST shoes maximize these advantages
with an exact lay-up schedule that makes each shoe stiff where needed,
complacent where wanted—and still remarkably durable and light.
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