Paketa magnesium bike frames.

AuthorPeterson, Eric
PositionSMALL.biz

"Nothing has the ride quality of a magnesium frame," says Dave Walker, director of engineering at Paketa Cycles, citing vibration dampening 10 times that of steel, aluminum or titanium. "Magnesium is in a completely different league. You can ride for 100 miles and not feel like you got beat up."

Founded in 2002, Broomfield-based Paketa got its start importing magnesium bike frames from post-Cold War Moscow, then got in the manufacturing game three years later when it connected with magnesium-tube fabricator Timminco in Commerce City. (Timminco moved its plant to Mexico in 2009, but remains...

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