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[kropotkin thinks...] - Tom's Tech Treasures: Wheel Covers, Carbon Swingarms, And Mor
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Carbon swingarm on Pol Espargaro’s KTM RC16
Peter Bom:
In terms of shape, this swingarm is identical to the aluminum version. The advantage is primarily weight, of course, but also that you can modify stiffness in multiple directions quite easily. You do that simply by laminating in a different direction, by placing the layers of carbon at different angles. We can expect to see KTM bring a lot more carbon swingarms now. The initial investment is very high for the first version; making a mold to lay the carbon up in is expensive. But because you can create swingarms with different stiffnesses by changing the way the carbon is laid, it is much less expensive in the long term.
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