Contemplates a concrete bicycle... Ed's interest in the thread becomes clear.
You're going to think i'm fully mad now. But, in the not too distant future, it's a distinct possibility that you could produce a mould and run off concrete bike frames at a rate of knots using UHPFRC (ultra high performance fibre reinforced concrete). It certainly looks like it has the possibility of outperforming a wood frame if you could cast it thin enuough, although i've only ever seen it used for bridges and roofs and it's still very specialist stuff.
You're going to think i'm fully mad now. But, in the not too distant future, it's a distinct possibility that you could produce a mould and run off concrete bike frames at a rate of knots using UHPFRC (ultra high performance fibre reinforced concrete). It certainly looks like it has the possibility of outperforming a wood frame if you could cast it thin enuough, although i've only ever seen it used for bridges and roofs and it's still very specialist stuff.