All

Stiffmaster is a completely different product and serves a completely different purpose. Stiffmaster is a complete headset unit. But yes, it is also clamped on the steerer tube. Does not really have anythign to do with Aimy or the clamp of Problemsolvers on the other hand, which indeed is basically the same product as aimy just in a different design.

Not being entirely sure if it was meant the way I took it, I would like to say thank you.

When we introduced Aimy to our dealers acouple weeks ago, I learned from one of them that there was another company offering a very similar product already. Today, I learned, that there was one more company. Did not know of either of theee products and yes, that indeed means, we were not the first. But Cornelius and Intend? That'd be completely new to me. What's the name of this product?

I know. I wasn't kidding with what I replied.

@BergMann I gave you some answers to your question and off be interested to hear your thoughts on that. It's a shame, when people ask cynical questions without then we engaging in discission after they get real answers

Right, didn't think of it. We definitely should have red grips, then. Nah, seriously, let's see, how people like them and then there will be more color options.

This is our first grip and it is our own development and before knowing whether people would like it or not, we wanted to go with a more common size. That does not mean we did not think about thicker options going forward..

I see where you're coming from and we had the same in mind when we designed thr grips. However, there is a big difference between this and a dual clamp design. On a dual lock design (or single, but outer clamp design for that matter (like on some older Ergon models), you have to clamp the outer ring onto the handlebar. That means the clamp will effectively shorten the handlebar's usable width and instead of a 780mm handlebar, you may only have an effective 740 or 750 without touching the hard clamps. Our encaps obviously reach beyond the handlebar's edge...

That, what I claim, is fair enough! Show me pictures of their own production line of Carbon rims and I´ll stay quiet about it. I am not sure, if you´ve read about what I and other people have explained about how the bike industry works. And no offense, bicycle industry is a little different from automotive industry. I live in Munich and i have studie and graduated from a German university in Mechanical Engineering. I am not sayig this to brag about. But you can safely assume, that I know a little about automotive industry. Bascially every other of my...

Really? What does "seeing first hand how hard and how innovative this company has been delevoping components over a long period of time" include? I don´t feel like repeating myself over and over, but I some people, including you, do not seem to just remotely understand, what developing really is and what it takes to develop those things. You also don´t seem to be grasping, how easy it can be to source existing components from more than thousands of manufacturers/suppliers alone in Taiwan. Then you go send them a logo, and they´ll put it on the goods they produce and...

Oh, and the "similarity" of paddle-shape between your Triggers paddles and those from a Shimano SLX, XT and XTR, was not intended, right? Sensah Paddles: http://sensahtech.com/srx/ Shimano Paddles: https://www.google.com/search?biw=1920&bih=938&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=64LtW7z… I´d never in my life have the balls to market something just looking remotely that similiar to a Shimano Trigger. Just by loooking at the shape and the dent pattern on the paddles of the Tigger, I'd be afraid to have a letter from Japan on the way to me, soon. But what do i know about the business...

I guess what people wanted to see are drawing sketches, early prototypes/functioning mock-ups. Those parts, that one can see here are for sure no prototypes, but production parts or very late pre-production samples, as they are clearly forged/stamped and definitely something you can not produce without a mould. They are even properly surface finshed, anodized and labeled already. This does not prove that you´ve designed anything. Neither do the pictures. To be fair: It does also not prove that you didn´t. It´s just that the way about how you got from the beginnigs to now, is where you leave us...

Actually, I do think the engineering is very difficult. There is so much more to shifting, than just cogs and parallelograms and spacing and indexing. Every cog has soo many little shifting aids. Theeth are shaped differently, cog flanks are shaped with little dents, allt for a very specific reason, which, however, is unknown to me. Also the front chainwheels have shifting aids (small, very sharp pins in specific, but - also - not easily understandable positions. Also there, the teeth are shaped very differently. Look at a cog and at a chainwheel and you´ll know, what I mean. It´s...

I´ve joined Bionicon Bikes in 2010 and was in charge of and executed all frame and suspension designs after 2012. Here are a few of the things, that we´ve designed in that period: https://www.bionicon.de/technik/ I´ve re-designed the existing Bionicon geometry-adjust system, introducing a double-positive and double negative air spring: https://www.mtb-news.de/forum/attachments/15-2x2-air-cartridge-jpg.3688… I graduated from university with the design of a bladder-based damping cartridge, which can be seen here at 3:15 (it´s in German though, sorry): https://videos.mtb-news.de/31011/eurobike_2013_bionicon A few years ago, I´ve designed an adjustable negative air can for X-Fusion Vector Air, because I believed this was a great shock with great...