Sculpting speed Crafting the world’s most beautiful bicycle with additive manufacturing Global engineering company, Renishaw, has collaborated with J.Laverack Bicycles on the development of a luxury bespoke bike. Described as the world’s most bespoke, most advanced and most meticulously engineered road bike, it features titanium components made on Renishaw’s RenAM 500Q metal additive manufacturing (AM) system.
J.Laverack is a UK-based designer and manufacturer of titanium bikes. Founded from a love of cycling, the team is passionate about how its bikes look, feel and perform. “Our relationship with Aston Martin started when a member of the design team became a customer of ours,” said David Clow, Co-Founder of J.Laverack. “Because he used the bike to commute, it caught the eye of other Aston Martin team members and planted the seed for a collaboration between the two companies, and
we set out to design a high-end, luxury bespoke bike together.” In a luxury bespoke bike, aesthetics are highly important. The aim was to make a visually ‘boltless’ bicycle from a combination of titanium lugs and carbon fibre tubes, where nearly every element can be tailored to the exact measurements of the rider, from made- to-measure handlebars to unique frame sizes. This defies traditional bike design, allowing for components to be adjusted for different rider
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