At FLIT, our aim is to develop the best folding ebike on the market, and whilst we have spent years engineering our award-winning lightweight folding ebike, the FLIT-16, we cannot claim to have invented the folding bicycle by any means! In fact, we are building on over a century of innovation and invention. For World …
The Evolution of the Folding Bicycle: A Brief History Read More »
Dec 16, 2021 As our riders will know, we’ve been working hard over the past few months on redesigning the FLIT-16 mudguards. It hasn’t been easy! This is the tale of their development: we’ll show the good, the bad, and the ugly concepts, as well as the design challenges we faced along the way. Most …
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Come behind the scenes at the paint factory and watch how we turn bike frames into beautiful Marengo Grey, Blaze Orange and Maya Blue ebikes.
Watch behind the scenes footage from the factory showing how we turn raw metal into bike parts.
Find out more about the early stages of designing the FLIT-16. See how we turned pencilled sketches into working prototypes
Aug 28, 2020 14 days of quarantine complete… time to prepare for final assembly of our first fleet of FLIT-16s! Those of you that follow us on social media will know that Dave, our Technical Lead, is currently in Taiwan to visit our manufacturing partner. We’re lucky that Dave was granted a special visa to enter as travel …
Jul 2, 2020 We’ve just reached a major milestone: welding of the main frames has begun! This is a big moment for us as our first batch of FLIT-16s are closer to being finished ebikes, ready for their delivery in September. We’ve got some sneaky factory footage for you below! As we get closer to …
May 1, 2020 I’m going to skip the usual intro about coronavirus and start off with some good news! You may remember from our previous update that Dave, our Technical Lead and the designer of the FLIT-16, was visiting our manufacturing partner in Taiwan. Whilst he was over there, he was helping to build two brand new …
Mar 12, 2020 As some of you may know, Dave, our Technical Lead is currently over in Taiwan with our manufacturing partner. Whilst he’s over there he’ll be putting the bike through it’s final round of electrical testing, as well as assembling two demo bikes. Dave will be bringing these production FLIT-16s back to UK …
Engineering stories: batteries complete + demo bike assembly Read More »
Jan 31, 2020 Hi guys, Dave here. Things are progressing pretty quickly over in Taiwan, and we now have the majority of the parts for the rear swing arm (the part that swings underneath when folding the FLIT-16) manufactured. We thought that now would be a good time to give you a sneak peek behind …
Engineering stories: how the rear swing arm is manufactured Read More »
