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Focus 2010

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Category: Focus

Published on Tuesday, 27 October 2009 07:22

Written by Luca Salvatelli

Many interesting news by Focus for 2010.

The German company continues the evolution of its range with interesting new techniques, to respect the fact that all production is "Made in Germany". The street the range flagship model is the Izalco Team Milram, a monocoque frame with different particularities. The oblique tube has different section depending on size, so that the ratio of height/weight/stiffness remains constant in different sizes. The internal cable is special and with their structure help to stiffen the structure of the tube. The cables, in reality, flow in a rib cut into the tube, which improves the rigidity. The series of steering is conical and the tapered bottom bracket is of type BB30. 3T fork is made on specific features of the Focus and alloy dropouts to improve stability and steering precision at high speeds. Alche the rear and its dropouts have been studied carefully in order to improve the rigidity and the ability to absorb vibrations. Going down the range of other frames have the same philosophy, that tube diameters varying according to size, attention to driving comfort over long distances and the materials used. In the medium range, for example, is used for some high-modulus carbon tubes and other high modulus, so as to reduce the final cost. In the field Mtb Revenir Extreme model represents the top range. Again the diameter of the tube oblique is different depending on the size and run the cables inside the housing which improves the rigidity of the tube. The series of steering is always conical and BB30 bottom bracket. The rear brake caliper is to have an internal brake more powerful and flexible and is already in the thread to move the caliper if you adopt a disk of 180 mm, instead of 160 mm. So you avoid using adapters that increase the weight and a lower rigidity of the clamp and reduce the attack power and scalability of braking. The dropouts are special and designed to increase capacity to absorb shocks and improve driving comfort, but the whole rear triangle is designed to improve lateral rigidity without compromising the ability of driving comfort. With the same design features, but with different types of carbon, spread across the Focus range from Mtb, bike full too.