the organic light was designed on the porsche design computer
And all other bikes are designed on the back of an envelope? Well maybe ragley and on-one might be, but the big brands using more complicated tubes will be doing thousands's of hours in FEA)
the carbon is actully crushed round a solid aluminium former which is then electrolitically dissolved from inside.
So……..
As I said before, the idea of squeezing the layup to more evenly distribute the resin is as old as modern composite technology, even the bamboo bike off here was vacum bagged to compact the material over bits of aluminium and wood (admitedly the aluminium and wood is serving a slighly different purpous in his bike).
110mm and 5.5lb, even the orange 5 must be getting near that weight now, if not plenty of others are, and they'r used for a lot more than XC?
I'm not knocking stork, I'd level the same criticism at any manufactuer trying to convince me that their product realy was somehow a quantum leap foreward form what was possible last year. If we believed everthing we're told, shimano brakes would be fitted to A380's, and F1 would be building its cars from the offcuts outside the stork factory.
As it is, A380's use their own brakes, and F1 chasis' are deceptively simple structures.