Spreading some love ❤
Some of my passion is for bicycling, industrial design, photography and film; the latter two became my job.
Now, a bicycling and industrial design project I've made with the Chinese carbon fiber manufacturer Imtos, will be shown at the world's largest bicycle fair in Shanghai. We've made a handlebar that's faster, more comfortable, lighter, more stable, and with more positions, than a normal drop bar/stem.
One position is underarms horisontal, hands still holding hoods for brake/shift access. This is the fastest position on a normal drop bar, but less safe, bad brake access, and not comfortable. Our bar solves this.
Also, drops are higher and angled; more comfortable, and good brake/shifter access even with angled-in hoods, that are narrow on this bar. Drops are wide, and allow the underarms to squeeze sideways to touch the bar, making four points of contact, being more stable; for instance, easier to stabilise a deep front wheel in winds.
I've been riding my home-made prototypes for 12 years, and five years ago Jan-Willem van Schip made headlines being disqualified by UCI with a related bar. My deep respect to Jan-Willem and Speeco! Our design takes this further, and with Imtos, that makes some of the world's lightest and most beautiful bike parts, my tinkered ideas can now be used by others. One way of spreading some love ❤
If you've got questions, I'll try my best answering.
Pictures of my bikes, in my home town Norrköping Sweden, that will be displayed by Imtos at the 34th China International Bicycle Fair, May 5-8, in Shanghai, China.
Added: images of hand positions, me on the trinity. Some thinks the chainring shape is bad AI. It’s not generated or from outer space, it’s o’symetric from France (almost the same)
