Sports & Recreation

From football helmets to hockey sticks to kayaks to bobsleds, composite materials help athletes reach their highest performance capabilities and provide durable, lightweight equipment for weekend warriors.

LOOK’s T20 Track Bike Uses Composites to Be Lightweight, Strong and Ready for Tokyo 2020

LOOK’s new T20 Track Bike is focused on the combined athlete and bike interaction, the result of years of work to build expertise in the use of carbon fiber and composite materials. LOOK has won the most...

Carbon Fiber is Propelling Marathon Runners to the Finish Line

Brooks is introducing a new marathon shoe, Hyperion Elite, that offers runners a carbon fiber midsole for lightweight endurance and propulsion. The designers at Brooks started working on a project in...

50th Anniversary of Lunar Landing Inspires Motorbike Designer to Use Composites

Italian designers and manufacturers Carboni e Metalli launched The Lunar Project motorbike in homage to the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, combining vintage details such as a steel frame and a 2-stroke...

Airstream Builds a New NEST

Airstream travel trailers are easily recognized by their signature style: a shiny, aluminum exterior with rounded roof lines. But the company has varied this look with its newest model, Nest by Airstream....

Engineers at MSU Fabricated a Carbon Fiber Hand Brace to Get a Player Back for March Madness

Michigan State University’s Biomechanical Design Research Lab, Composite Materials and Structures Center, and the MSU-Fraunhofer Center for Coatings and Diamond Technologies worked together to fabricate a...

Guerrilla Gravity is Using Its Patent-Pending Revved Carbon Technology to Build Carbon Fiber Bicycle Frames

Revved frames are fused during a 30-minute cycle, saving both time and money in production. Revved Carbon Technology, which has been in development and testing at Guerrilla Gravity (GG) for the last three...