Portable Metrology Helps Ensure Safety and Fairness at the Tour de France

Rapid, accurate frame validation made possible with ROMER bike measurement system

Thu, 07/21/2016 - 17:15

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Every bicycle frameset used at the Tour de France (and any machine raced at any UCI-sanctioned bicycle event for that matter) is validated by the Union Cyclist Internationale (UCI). Enabling this intensive process is a bike measurement system based on a ROMER Absolute Arm from Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence. This portable coordinate measurement machine (PCMM) is used to ensure that every bicycle frame and fork meet rigid UCI standards. Once inspected, the frameset is issued a UCI approval sticker and thus made race-legal at any UCI-approved event anywhere around the world.

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Submitted by gstat on Wed, 08/03/2016 - 23:50

Dear Sir,

Thank you for sharing with us this aspect of the race. However, I think that the speed (mph) you write at the end of the article is not that much.

Rgrds

Submitted by gstat on Wed, 08/03/2016 - 23:50

Dear Sir,

Thank you for sharing with us this aspect of the race. However, I think that the speed (mph) you write at the end of the article is not that much.

Rgrds

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