BMC SLC01: Carbon Nanotube Frame as Light as Five Cellphones

The new BMC SLC01 is the first bike to use carbon nanotube technology.  The weight of the frame is just 2.1 pounts, with a cost of $3650 (which excludes wheels and all the other things that came with your bike from Walmart).

“Tiny tiny tiny (you can’t even see ‘em) tubes of carbon fiber (ie: nanotubes) are mixed into the resin which bonds the carbon sheets together, and work to add strength to the resin much like using wire-mesh in concrete does.” (BMC - Manufacturer)

“I admit to being enamoured of BMC bikes, my personal ride for 2005 was their SLT01 Team Machine – regaled in full Phonak colors [and stolen from my garage!… Tech Ed]. Sure it made for a decidedly “EuroTrash” rainbow of colors when mixed with the mighty PEZ-Kit, but for anyone not afraid to be different – the BMC’s unique exo-skeleton frame design, coated in the yellow, green and white Phonak colors was the ticket. The bike was also a pleasure to ride – stiffer than Stifler’s Mother at the bottom and through the drive train, but with improved long-ride comfort achieved through carbon layup, geometry, Easton’s EC90 carbon fork, Zipp’s 303 carbon clinchers, and Modolo’s Curvissima KX carbon bars - for me it’s a great ride. But I was keen to see just how much they’d changed the 2006 model…” (PEZ Cycling Review)