Endless Blading Show Episode 14 - Testing Endless 100 UFS Frames

Don’t our last livestream for 2024! Episode 14 of the Endless Blading Show is going to be a ton of fun and should be really insightful. As many of you know we’ve been developing and testing a new 4x100 UFS frame for quite a while now. As promised we are going to pull back the curtain and let you all get a glimpse into our development and testing process prior to the launch of these new frames. Andrew and Brad will be joined by @billyarlew, @approximately_inline, and @woooskates to discuss why we are finally making this frame after 5 years and how the prototypes have been performing. There may be some surprises in store. Spoiler alert…we made a 4x90 UFS frame and tested it as well.
We also present a structural analysis (FEA) to validate our subjective experiences while testing the frame. It is meant to be a first order analytical confirmation of what our bodies experienced when riding the 100 Ultra vs. another good peforming frame that our testing team was familiar with. We chose to share those results with the live audience right after we got the results. For this particular frame design it was not used in an iterative design process. In the future I’m sure we will make use of FEA for both our design process and for testing validation.
A clarification on the FEA (finite element analysis) shown: we had the two frames being compared pointing in opposite directions, hence why the regions of highest deflection were opposite each other. We realized this discrepancy as we were discussing the analysis results in real-time. Ideally we would have presented the results with both frames pointing the same direction, but it was an oversight when we were making the slides. We will likely create a blog post to summarize our findings and will correct the presentation so the views are consistent.
The Endless 100 Ultra UFS and Endless 90 Ultra UFS Frames designs shown in this video are both covered by recent patent filings and are patent pending.
Dreamy intro and outro animation courtesy of Vecteezy.com