Thursday location: Seven | 8:05 am – 9:05 pm
- Process Improvement: Fork alignment work. We’ve had great success with Seven Cycles’ 5E carbon fork since its introduction. The fork has been extremely stable – in all meanings of the word – for nearly a decade. For the first time we’re starting to see a bit of creep in one of the specifications. We’ve tracked down the reason; I’d say it’s fundamentally an entropy situation. The fork is so consistent that some checks get lackadaisical. Statistical creep.
- Product Development: Carbon disc fork. We’ve got a prototype just about ready for testing: ride testing and fatigue testing. I’m not too worried about passing our fatigue test. Ride testing, that’s a whole other thing. It’s been a difficult balance between braking performance and fork handling characteristics. I’m fairly confident that we’ll end up with a fork that meets our desires; it’ll just be a bit heavier than I’d like. I’m guessing we’ll have it to market just as road discs are no longer in use.
- Product Testing: We’re just about ready to start testing Seven Cycles’ new randonneur fork. We’re trying to do everything we’ll be offering in this fork all at once, in one test. It’s a bit much. But it will be worth it. We’re making the lugs right now. Lugs on a carbon fork? Test ride next week. Fatigue tests start the second week of January.
Post title: “So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors.” – Buckminster Fuller
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