US-Made Stainless Steel MS2(TM)Tubing Gains Foothold

Appearing in high-end stock bikes as well as custom models

Arizona based company, Vyatek Sports, has worked with KVA STAINLESS to design Exogrid, a carbon/stainless steel composite tubing , which has been built into a road bike by Dean Titanium Bicycles; on display at the KVA booth at Interbike.

KVA’s vice-president of sales, Douglas Gore, explains, “The starting point is an MS2 stainless steel tube. We then design and engineer a precise pattern to be laser machined to remove the optimal amount of material from the tube. The resulting lightweight metal skeleton tube is then fused with a patented carbon technology that has an advanced composite inner structure. The characteristics of the different materials in a multi-material tube structure allow for a tube lighter than the original stainless steel tube with stiffer bending/torsion performance. With this mix, we could achieve 1050 – 1110 gram (37-39 ounce/sub 2.5lb) frames.”

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Posted on August 19th, 2011
Written by: Douglas Gore
Filed under Bicycles, technology, automotive, cars, new technology, sports, cycling
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Douglas Gore is a senior leadership executive with experience and success in growing companies toward their potential value within their marketplace. Strengths include business management, sales leadership, sales and marketing, product development, and business processes experience. Douglas has the expertise in driving all phases of new product development, manufacturing and packaging, along with formulating product plans, guiding the product life cycle from concept phases through market introduction, and defining and implementing product enhancement plans for commercialization. Prior to joining KVA STAINLESS™ as the vice-president of sales, Douglas has successfully invented, manufactured and launched a wide variety of products to include: medical devices, consumer products, supplements, fertilizers, pet products, LED’s, solar optics, clothes and kitchen items.