Cycling components brand
A Tour de France handlebar started as a 3D print.
Before it raced the Tour and UCI competition, a carbon time-trial bar was tested with its rider as an OperGo 3D print.
Processes used
The fit was tested before the carbon was made.
The brief
A bar to test with the rider
The brand needed to check the bar’s fit with its rider before the final part was made.
The approach
3D-printed, with threaded inserts
OperGo printed the bar by Multi Jet Fusion, with brass threaded inserts in its mounting boss.
The result
Carbon, once the fit was proven
The final bar was made in carbon fiber, and raced at the Tour de France, the Giro d’Italia and across UCI competition.
Threaded inserts
Brass inserts in the mounting boss of the print, so the bar could be fitted for the test.
The print, and the bar it became.
OperGo made the print. The carbon bar is the brand’s own final part.
Start with a print
Test the part before you commit to it.
Send a CAD file. An engineer picks the 3D printing technology for your part and quotes it.
No commitmentMutual NDA signed before you upload.