A model new handlebar invention with a novel funding technique is to be out there for pre-order this weekend.
The FLITEDECK – largely funded by an OnlyFans account run by its co-founders, Sabrina Fischer and Matthias Huber – incorporates a built-in laptop which was designed with the intention of creating your handlebars each extra aero, and higher to have a look at. Customers will now not want an ordinary biking laptop because of the performance of the brand new machine that the German couple have designed.
Writing on LinkedIn, Fischer stated she “a girl prepared to show the biking business just a little bit the other way up”.
“Precisely 4 years in the past, we filed the patent for this innovation – laying the very first basis for what’s now turning into actuality. Since then, we’ve labored relentlessly to deliver FLITEDECK to life, absolutely self-funded, pushed by our imaginative and prescient to redefine what biking looks like.
“And now, with simply hours to go, the joy (and nerves!) are rising by the minute. However most of all, we’re past thrilled to lastly kick off serial improvement and take biking to the subsequent degree. As a result of… The trip deserves extra. Extra integration, extra security, extra efficiency – and an expertise that’s seamless, intuitive, and constructed for the longer term.”
The couple beforehand informed Biking Weekly that they opted to make use of OnlyFans to fund their venture after going through “inefficient processes” stuffed with “forms” whereas trying to find potential funding.
“It was principally as a result of it was fairly not possible to get exterior funding from buyers,” Fischer defined. “We’re each open minded folks, and I’ve no downside exhibiting extra of me, together with extra spicy content material. So we considered it after which thought why not, let’s simply give it a attempt. And it was in such excessive demand from my neighborhood that it simply went up like that.”
She added: “All people’s hating on these ladies making tens of millions on OnlyFans and asking how on earth are they doing it. Nevertheless it’s my life, it is our life and on the finish, if it really works, why not? I am doing nothing unlawful so why not.”
The FLITEDECK is about to be out there for pre-order at midnight (CET) on Saturday.