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* ME240/105S: Product Dissection From Ref. 5, used by permission of Rodale Press, ?1994, all rights reserved Bicycle Design and Construction Different Frame Construction Philosophies Cannondale - welded aluminum frames, hand crafted Specialized - welded steel or chrome-moly (a steel alloy) Trek - glued aluminum frames, or welded steel Bicycle companies tend to have different design philosophies, to give them a unique market “niche”: FrameComponents from Ref. 3, used with permission of Dorling Kindersley, ?1992, all rights reserved Joining Processes for Frame Tubing from Ref. 3, used with permission of Dorling Kindersley, ?1992, all rights reserved 4 Cannondale Factory Tour - CAD All of Cannondale’s bicycle frames are designed on high-tech CAD systems in the RD department at the Bethel, Connecticut headquarters. New frame designs are then sent via modem to the Cannondale factory in Bedford, Pennsylvania. The following are excerpts from /factoryb/f2.html 5 Cannondale Factory Tour - Raw Tubing With the exception of carbon fiber/aluminum Raven models, all Cannondale bicycles are built from lightweight 6000 series aluminum tubes with different diameters, shapes, and wall thicknesses. 6000 series aluminum is used because it can be shaped and machined much easier than 7000 series aluminum or metal matrix aluminum compounds. Cannondale Factory Tour - Laser Cutting Computer guided lasers are used to precisely cut aluminum frame tubes to the proper length. Selected tubes are also mitered to wrap around adjoining tubes. The lasers provide a cleaner cut than traditional cutting methods and ensure incredibly tight tolerances for greater weld integrity and a stronger frame. Cannondale Factory Tour - Tabs Slots The tubes on Cannondale frames feature a unique, patented tab-and-corresponding-slot design that aligns the tubes for welding. By eliminating the need to build numerous production fixtures for each size and every new frame style, this tab-and-slot system dramatic