Abstract: This invention relates to a bicycle fork based on a resin reinforced by a textile reinforcement, in the form of a moulded assembly in one piece, forming the pivot, the fork head and the two blades, wherein the textile reinforcement is disposed around a previously formed core, the core having the configuration of the fork to be produced and being of slightly smaller dimensions in order to take into account the thickness of the reinforcement disposed around this core; and wherein the textile reinforcement is constituted, at least partly, by a superposition of bidirectional braided tubes imprisoning therebetween longitudinal yarns disposed parallel to the generatrices of said fork, said longitudinal yarns being distributed regularly over the whole periphery of the core defining the fork, both around the blades and around the fork head and the steering pivot.

Abstract: A tubular material based on a fabric reinforced resin, said material comprising layed up fabric layers, the inside and outside layers consisting of bidirectional braided sheaths, said latter two layers sandwiching an intermediate, unidirectional braid consisting primarily of parallel, longitudinal yarns at least 10% of which have a high tensile strength and the remainder of which are yarns of the same type as the yarns of said bidirectional braids. An application in the construction of a bicycle frame is described.