June 2021 ESRFnews 15

NEED FOR SPEED

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K R IS TI A N T H Ø G E R S E N /F LI C K R

In professional sport, where every drop of performance matters, additive manufacturing has already made a real difference. In 2015, the British cyclist Bradley Wiggins rode a bicycle fitted with handlebars (inset image) printed at the University of Sheffield in the UK, in collaboration with ESRF user Peter Lee (see main story). Clocking up more than 54 km in an hour, he set a new world track record.