Dec 10, 2020 To those of you that have received your FLIT-16, we hope you’re enjoying your new ebike! If you haven’t received your bike yet, thanks so much for your patience, your bike will be on its way to you soon. We are working hard to quality check and send bikes out as quickly …
Nov 20, 2020 Watch below as we unload our first batch of ebikes at our warehouse in Cambridge! PICS FROM TODAY If you have any questions about this update or your order please feel free to get in touch.
Sep 18, 2020 This was a good week! After three years developing the FLIT-16, it was an amazing moment to see our first FLIT fleet come off the production line. The assembly factory was a hive of activity as frame parts and components were loaded onto the production line and assembled stage by stage into …
Sep 10, 2020 First, let’s talk about delivery timelines. Last week, we explained that the expected delivery date has been set back to late October, due our motor supplier (Bafang) supplying us with the wrong length motor controller cable. We have some good news! Bafang is currently making extension cables to solve the problem. These …
Sep 5, 2020 Here comes the colour! This week, we’ve been painting your ebike frames. Dave, our Technical Lead, has been busy travelling between the frame, paint, and assembly factories in Taiwan, preparing everything for the final steps of manufacturing. Because we want to show you as much of what’s going on behind the scenes …
Aug 28, 2020 14 days of quarantine – complete! As you can imagine, Dave, our Technical Lead, was itching to leave his quarantine hotel room and make his way to the factory in Taichung. Dave checked out of the quarantine hotel last Sunday and headed straight out in 38 degree heat to travel to Taichung, …
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Aug 14, 2020 7 days of quarantine done… 7 days to go! Don’t worry, Dave, our Technical Lead, hasn’t quite lost it (yet). He’s spent the past week in one of the dedicated quarantine hotels in Tapei, Taiwan. The rules around COVID-19 are very strict over there: those in quarantine are tracked through the GPS …
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Jul 31, 2020 This week we’re celebrating because Dave’s visa to go to Taiwan for his manufacturing inspection trip on August 7th has been granted! It’s currently extremely difficult to enter Taiwan, which continues to see very low numbers of COVID-19 cases. One of the only ways to do so is a special visa for …
Manufacturing update: Taiwan visa + welding of front forks Read More »
Jul 16, 2020 Another week… another set of parts welded! In our last update, we showed you some photos of the rear swing arm (the part that swings under the bike when folding) being welded. Welding of the main frames continues in the factory, and this week we were finishing up the bottom brackets. This …
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Jul 3, 2020 BIG NEWS: welding of the main frames has begun! Remember the shiny CNC parts that we showed in our last update? These parts are now being welded together, so your FLIT-16s are really starting to take shape. We’ve got some footage straight from the factory for you… FOUNDERS’ BATCH HANDLEBAR ETCHING Those of …
