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Velo Saddle
VELO TITANIUM RACE SADDLEVelo is a Taiwan manufacturer is bicycle saddles, whose products have historically been sold in the United States, under other companies brand names. Their work the quality many riders seek. The Velo Titanium Race saddle is the basis on which the WaveFlo Elite saddle is built, so their similarities are understandable. The saddle uses a molded nylon shell, with softness provided from molded high density foam padding. The foam padding contours the shell, feathering to thin edge at the sides. The padding is glued to the shell, and a thin perforated leather cover is carefully cut and glued down over the foam padding with the edges rolled under the lip of the shell and tightly glued in place. The rail assembly is made of Titanium rod, and has the return curve at the front of the saddle, located in a bridge molded into the shell. The thick molded bridge joins the sides and top, at the front of the saddle. The return curve occurs 1 1/2" from the tip. The rail ends are held in rear rail recievers molded into the nylon shell. The Velo Titanium Race saddle is available only with a Black leather cover and weighs 210.5 grams. $ Price in Catalog |
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In-depth Information About Metals Aluminum Aluminum is extracted electrolytically from bauxite ore. It is made by the electrolysis of aluminum oxide which is found in larger concentrations within bauxite ore. Bauxite is a mixture of the hydroxides of aluminum, together with other impurities such as oxides of iron, titanium, and silicon. Bauxite is produced by the weathering and change of aluminum silicate rocks usually found in tropical and semitropical regions where climate has produced an accelerated weathering process. Bauxite is not a rare ore and is widely available in the US, the Caribbean, and Europe. Approximately 4 pounds of read the full article... Beryllium Beryllium is a specialty metal that is steel-grey metal in color, with an extremely low density, making it very light weight. At 1.85 grams to the cubic centimeter, its density compares to that of magnesium. It is also a high strength metal, making it possible to design light weight, thin membered parts with ahigh stiffness. A column made of beryllium to support a load placed directly downward on top of it, will have a greater load carrying capacity, and be lower in weight than any other metal of equal size. Until the 1950's beryllium was used read the full article... Titanium The element titanium was discovered in 1763 by an English cleric, William Gregor who was an amateur chemist with an inquiring mind. It was in the black sands of Cornwall that he discovered the new element that had up to that time, attracted little scientific interest. A few years later, an Austrian, Klaproth, extracted the same element from an ore widely known as "rutile", which is a mineral consisting of titanium dioxide (one titanium atom, two oxygen atoms), that is a reddish-brown substance with a slight metallic luster. While rutile is the highest grade read the full article... Metallurgic Hardness Testing There are three types of tests used with accuracy by the metals industry,they are the Brinell hardness test, the Rockwell hardness test, and the Vickers hardness test. Hardness is the property of a metal which gives it the ability to resist being permanently deformed (bent, broken, or have its shape changed), when a load is applied. The greater the hardness of the metal, the greater resistance it has to deformation. Since the definitions of metallurgic ultimate strength and hardness are rather similar, it can generally be assumed read the full article... |
