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3D CNC Bending –Three Dimensional CNC bending machines, offer better consistency, and more importantly limit material and structural damage in the bending process. Damage caused to competitors’ bars in harsh traditional bending processes is difficult to measure, and put the rider at risk. 3D CNC bending allows us to optimize our designs where others must overbuild with buffer material. Spank has also taken steps in our shaping processes to ensure that the barclamping area is uniformly cylindrical and as true as possible. Improving the bar-stem interface is critical to withstanding extreme loads and improving fatigue life.
MGR - Micro Grain Refinement – Processes such as extrusion, forging and tube drawing can increase the strength of alloy materials by reducing the grain size. Spank uses state of the art proprietary metal forming methods which further improve grain size consistency and orientation, and significantly reduce the grain size beyond that of our competitors. No other bars are subjected to the number of drawing steps, or level of refinement as those offered by Spank. This leads to greater ultimate strength, toughness, and ductility...meaning confidence, comfort and safety.
Dual XGT with Impact Ends – XGT or “Extreme Gradual Taper” technology is a proprietary tube drawing process, afforded by state of the art tooling. Dual XGT technology tapers our bars from the thickest area at the bar clamping zone, slowly and gradually through the bend zones, to the thinnest area at the control mount zone, AND back to a thicker reinforced barend zone. Tapers that occur over too short a distance, or with defined start/end points, create isolated stress zones where breaks occur. Dual XGT designs with Impact Ends optimize thicknesses to withstand the specific forces at work in each zone, while offering better protection against crashes than ever before! Extreme precision enabled by Dual XGT drawing processes also eliminates the need for excessive hand grinding, with can result in imperfections and inconsistency in wall thickness, weakening bars.
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