From a dragonfly’s wing to a WorldTour saddle
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Thomas Rettenwander's doctoral research on dragonfly wings inspired a lightweight, structurally efficient design for a WorldTour saddle, applying biological principles to engineering.
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Thomas Rettenwander was writing his doctoral thesis at Austria’s Montanuniversität Leoben when he first studied dragonfly wings in detail. Not for their beauty, but for their engineering. Dragonfly wings are a masterclass in structural minimalism: heavy fibres only where forces concentrate, a gossamer membrane everywhere else. Rettenwander spent years turning that biological blueprint into a […]
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