The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a reinforced bar made from fiberglass and polymeric resin, the resin being selected from polyester resin and epoxy resin wherein said resin is additionally reinforced with graphene nanoplatelets.

A method for making a bicycle rim, having a rim body with at least one integrated cavity . The cavity is enclosed by a component wall. The rim body extends in a rim plane over 360 transverse to its rotational axis.

The cavity forms a chamber in the rim body. A plurality of component walls have two lateral rim flanks, a radial inner rim base and a radial outer rim well, which limit the chamber. A rim body support structure is formed by a fibre structure. A fibre bundle is attached to a carrier layer and passed reciprocally on the carrier layer to form a basic fibre layer of the fibre structure. The fibre structure is draped in a tool mould. A filling unit is placed in the tool mould so that the filling unit keeps the volume free for the cavity and the cavity is surrounded by the component wall.

Provided is a glass multiple-ply roving that is excellent in impregnation quality of a thermoplastic resin for a random mat and workability in production of a random mat, and can impart excellent strength to a thermoplastic composite material. The glass multiple-ply roving includes a plurality of glass strands, wherein the weight of the glass strands, S, is in the range of 64 to 210 tex, the fiber diameter of the glass strands, D, is in the range of 9.0 to 18.0 m, the ignition loss of the glass multiple-ply roving, L, is in the range of 0.55 to 0.94%, and the S, D, and L satisfy the following formula (1):
4.101000S.sup.1/2/(D.sup.3L.sup.3)7.10(1).