Sporting goods
Bonding composites in various industries

Racing bikes

Frames are made of filament-wound carbon-epoxy tubes and assembled by epoxy bonding (e.g. Vitus-Bador bicycles and other brands).

Windsurfing

Ordinary boards are simply polyester-glass skins applied to foam cores, but modern high-performance boards can be of sophisticated construction with graphite-epoxy reinforcements as shown in figure 11 . The whole is coated with an external epoxy-fiberglass...