A look inside the Intense Cycles factory by Tomo Ichikawa.
Jeff Steber checks out the welds on a new frame.
Intense does most of the work in house: welding, heat treating and CNC machining. The frames are painted locally at another facility.
Easton makes the tubing.
Each frame is heat treated twice. The first time the frame is heat treated for 3 hours then the alignment is carefully checked by hand. The second time the frame is heat treated for 8 hours. Next the frame is painted and the BB bracket and head tube are faced.
Each awesome Intense frame involves about 15 hours of hands on work.
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Of course the best place to buy an Intense bike is dhReno sponsor Black Rock Bicycles.
August 4, 2008 at 8:43 am
That tracer is going to be a good bike. I hope we can demo one soon.
August 7, 2008 at 8:14 am
Demo? I want to buy one. Now.