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We have been observing this over the last few days at work.
They have restricted themselves by using an SLS machine with a small build chamber, meaning the frame has to be made in sections which are the glued together. It will clearly fail at the joins in about 5 minutes.
for some reason people have started to try and make SLS printed products, which is just retarded. 3D printing is a way of producing a prototype quickly (rapid prototyping)...... using it to produce a final product is just plain stupid, and rediculously expensive. You could buy a top end carbon road bike with SRAM Red for less than it would have cost to produce that peice of crap.
And the presenter on the BBC news peice crashed it as soon as he went off camera.