After a day of shredding Dyfi Bike Park, we had a whistle-stop tour of the Atherton Bikes HQ in Machynlleth, which included me ogling at the laser-sintering process they use to additively manufacture the frames’ titanium lugs. Theoretically, it takes around 16 hours to manufacture all of the titanium lugs necessary to build up one frame. In reality, building one bike per plate would be a very inefficient way of manufacturing the lugs. The engineers take a more economical approach, optimizing use of the space available on each manufacturing run. In the video above, you can see five headtubes being created as well as dropouts. #athertonbike #am130 #carbontitanium #additivemanufacturing #lasersintering #madeinwales #trailbike #mtb