A brand spanking new handlebar invention with a singular investment means is to be to be had for pre-order this weekend.
The FLITEDECK – in large part funded via an OnlyFans account run via its co-founders, Sabrina Fischer and Matthias Huber – comprises a integrated laptop which was once designed with the purpose of creating your handlebars each extra aero, and higher to take a look at. Customers will now not want a normal biking laptop because of the capability of the brand new instrument that the German couple have designed.
Writing on LinkedIn, Fischer mentioned she “a woman ready to turn the cycling industry a little bit upside down”.
“Exactly 4 years ago, we filed the patent for this innovation – laying the very first foundation for what is now becoming reality. Since then, we’ve worked relentlessly to bring FLITEDECK to life, fully self-funded, driven by our vision to redefine what cycling feels like.
“And now, with simply hours to move, the thrill (and nerves!) are emerging via the minute. However maximum of all, we’re past extremely joyful to in the end kick off serial building and take biking to the following stage. As a result of… The trip merits extra. Extra integration, extra protection, extra efficiency – and an enjoy that’s seamless, intuitive, and constructed for the long run.”
The couple previously told Cycling Weekly that they opted to use OnlyFans to fund their project after facing “inefficient processes” filled with “paperwork” while searching for potential investment.
“It was once mainly as it was once moderately unattainable to get exterior investment from traders,” Fischer explained. “We’re each open minded other folks, and I don’t have any downside appearing extra of me, together with extra highly spiced content material. So we thought of it after which concept why no longer, let’s simply give it a check out. And it was once in such top call for from my neighborhood that it simply went up like that.”
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She added: “Everyone’s hating on the ones ladies making hundreds of thousands on OnlyFans and asking how the heck are they doing it. However it is my lifestyles, it is our lifestyles and on the finish, if it really works, why no longer? I am doing not anything unlawful so why no longer.”
The FLITEDECK is about to be to be had for pre-order in the dead of night (CET) on Saturday.
