Gitzo™
A Vitec Group brand

basalt
Thanks to its unique expertise in composite materials, Gitzo developed a new High Performance basalt fibre tube. The new tube comes from a radical innovation of the Poltrusion process, the aerospace technology used by Gitzo to manufacture its composite tubes in one single step, starting from the raw fibres. Fibres are wet in the special resin and then pulled through a high temperature core that generates the tube as we know it. This works perfectly with 6X carbon fibre tubes, while basalt fibres absorb a smaller quantity of resin and this reduces tube density and performance. To overcome this physical limit of basalt fibres, it has been developed a new technology (DRI) to boost a higher quantity of resin into the fibres and increase the tube performance up to 22%, depending on the tube diameter.
Besides the High Performance tube, the new Gitzo Basalt Collection offer new sizes and a ... read more...
series ref. ALR G-lock material
cm cm cm cm cm kg kg
1. GT1830 • • rapid 3 168.0 135.0 21.0 64.0 1.35 7
1. GT1840C • • basalt rapid 4 113.5 89.5 16.0 43.0 1.18 7
2. GT2830 • • basalt rapid 3 167.5 135.5 21.0 62.5 1.54 10
2. GT2840C • • basalt rapid 4 112.0 89.0 16.0 43.0 1.36 10
3. GT3830 • • basalt rapid 3 165.5 134.5 23.0 68.0 2.71 15
4. GT3840C • basalt rapid 3 105.0 83.0 17.0 42.0 2.37 15

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