Why we’ve moved away from traditional welding Dave Henderson, Lead Engineer on the M2 Project explains In the fourth in our ‘Processes behind the M2’ series we take a detailed look at how bonding has enabled not only new design features but also a more compact fold. Why change the process from welding? After the […]
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Engineering Takeover: How many arms should a folding ebike fork really have? Interview with Adam, the lead designer on FLIT’s front fork project Space is a precious commodity for anyone in search of the perfect folding ebike. Whether it’s for commuting, storing at home, or taking on public transport, the size of a folded bike
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nov 21, 2019 It’s great to be able to introduce you guys to our brand new FLIT-16 in Blaze Orange! Since Dave returned from his trip to Taiwan to visit our manufacturing partner, he and Joe have been working hard to re-assemble Blaze and get him up and running. We’re really pleased with the end
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Oct 31, 2019 Just yesterday, Dave, our Technical Lead, landed back in the UK after his two week long trip to Taiwan to visit our manufacturing partner. Whilst he was there, Dave helped out with our pilot manufacturing run of FLIT-16s – which we’re excited to say went very smoothly and is now complete! WELDING
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Oct 11, 2019 After an incredible end to our Kickstarter campaign, we are very excited to let you know that manufacture is underway! We worked really hard with our manufacturing partner in Taiwan to make sure that everything was geared up for production, so that we could kick things off as soon as our campaign
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