Trial Production

Early the next morning, Zhang Yi arrived at the factory. Since they now had a CNC machine, and Xiao Hua had already performed some trial operations on the CNC machine Zhang Yi bought yesterday, she already had a general understanding of how to operate this machine's performance.

Although the CNC machines of human civilization were different from those of the Dwarves like Xiao Hua, the basic principles were somewhat similar. Coupled with the detailed guidance from the staff who installed the machine yesterday, and Xiao Hua consulting the manual, she had basically mastered the operation method and had already processed many parts yesterday.

Today, after Zhang Yi and Xiao Hua arrived, the first thing they did was put the parts into the CNC machine, then took out the Aerodynamic Bicycle blueprints and began to examine them. After studying them for a while, they decided to first trial-produce the core component of this bicycle, the Air Motor.

After all, compared to the other components of the Aerodynamic Bicycle, the Air Motor was absolutely the core of the core. As long as the Air Motor was manufactured, the subsequent components would likely not be a problem.

Perhaps the Air Motor of this Aerodynamic Bicycle would be very difficult for others to produce, as this motor had extremely strict requirements for precision, and even using high-performance CNC machines might not be able to process it.

But Xiao Hua's title of "Overlord" wasn't just for show. Although Xiao Hua was only an Elementary Apprentice Mechanical Industry Overlord and had only achieved success in mechanical processing so far, it would still be difficult for her to design a relatively complex mechanical device on her own.

After all, designing a relatively complex mechanical device required not only mechanical knowledge but also other knowledge. For example, designing and manufacturing an electric motor would also involve knowledge of the electrical industry, and so on.

However, Xiao Hua's mechanical processing ability was indeed beyond reproach. Based on Zhang Yi's observations during this period, he was absolutely impressed by Xiao Hua's processing ability. With the blueprints, processing the parts for this Air Motor was definitely possible, and the processing speed was not slow either.

In just one day, Xiao Hua processed nearly fifty Air Motors for Aerodynamic Bicycles. This was under the premise that she also had to manage the CNC machine simultaneously.

With the blueprints, Zhang Yi and the others took a total of two days to manufacture the parts for fifty Aerodynamic Bicycles, and then spent another day assembling all of these bicycles.

After all the bicycles were assembled, Zhang Yi randomly picked one out and rode it. After all, Zhang Yi himself didn't have a very good understanding of the performance of this bicycle yet. Blueprints were just blueprints; after actual production, there would definitely be some difference from the data on the blueprints. However, Zhang Yi was confident that even if this Aerodynamic Bicycle differed from the blueprints, the difference would definitely not be too large.

After test riding it, Zhang Yi was very satisfied with his Aerodynamic Bicycle. It was even slightly better than the data on the blueprints. Zhang Yi knew that this was definitely Xiao Hua's contribution.

This Aerodynamic Bicycle did not have a large air storage tank on the bike like the Aerodynamic Bicycles in the news. The Aerodynamic Bicycle produced by Zhang Yi stored the compressed air directly inside the bicycle frame.

Furthermore, because the frame of this bike was specially reinforced during manufacturing, the air pressure could be increased to over 20. However, for safety reasons, it could only be increased to a maximum of 18 atmospheres.

Of course, since ordinary air pumps, especially those in ordinary repair shops, generally have a maximum air pressure of only 4-8, this bicycle also had special valves that could use ordinary air pumps to increase the air pressure inside the bicycle to 18 atmospheres.

In addition, the biggest difference between this Aerodynamic Bicycle and ordinary bicycles was that this Aerodynamic Bicycle did not have a drive shaft or chain. Although it still had pedals, the purpose of the pedals was also to drive the rear wheel. However, the chain and drive shaft were replaced by the pedals generating compressed air, which then drove the Air Motor, and the Air Motor then drove the rear wheel.

The maximum speed of the Aerodynamic Bicycle produced by Zhang Yi and the others could reach about 50 kilometers per hour, but the range at this speed was only about 50 kilometers. If the speed was reduced to 30 kilometers per hour, the range of this Aerodynamic Bicycle would reach 70 kilometers, which was sufficient for most commuters.

At the same time, even when the air storage tank was empty, riding was very easy, even easier than riding an ordinary bicycle, and the speed could reach 25 kilometers per hour.

Moreover, the appearance of the bike was also very stylish and beautiful, at least much better looking than most electric bikes. Coupled with its environmental friendliness, novelty, convenience, and other features, Zhang Yi was confident that this Aerodynamic Bicycle would definitely be accepted by the market. After all, the price of ordinary electric bikes is generally between 3,000 and 4,000 yuan, and better electric bikes are even more expensive.

Among them, there were even some costing over 10,000 yuan per bike. Compared to these, the pricing of the Aerodynamic Bicycle produced by Zhang Yi and the others was also not low, as there were currently no Aerodynamic Bicycles on the market, or rather, no practical Aerodynamic Bicycles.

However, the cost of this bike was still a bit high. Due to the extensive use of Titanium Alloy materials, the material cost alone for the entire bike reached 1,500 yuan. This did not include labor costs. If labor hours were included, the cost of such an Aerodynamic Bicycle would reach around 2,000 yuan, which was still a bit high compared to most electric bikes.

However, this was because they were currently only trial-producing. If they started mass production in the future, the cost of the entire bike should be able to be reduced to below 1,700 yuan.

According to calculations, a cost of around 1,700 yuan was the limit. If Mechanical Structure Tires and Soft Memory Metal were used in the future, the cost would be even higher, at least over 2,500 yuan.

Therefore, Zhang Yi also set a very high price for this bicycle. He temporarily set the ex-factory price at 4,000 yuan per bike and the retail price at 6,000 yuan per bike. If Mechanical Structure Tires were used in the future, the ex-factory price would have to be at least 6,000 yuan per bike, and of course, this was just the ex-factory price, the retail price would have to be at least over 8,000 yuan.

However, after Zhang Yi test rode this bicycle, he started to worry again, which was how to sell this bicycle. He knew that he currently had no sales channels. Of course, he could also sell it online like others.

But Zhang Yi knew that since his Seven Color Stone Mechanical Factory had no reputation at all, and he had no funds to advertise this bicycle and increase the popularity of this Aerodynamic Bicycle, he would definitely not be able to sell much in the initial stage, and might even not sell a single one in a month.