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Client
UK Sport
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Business need
Design of an ergometer training bike that offers a realistic cycling experience.
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Why Frazer-Nash?
We are a technical innovation partner to UK Sport, working with them to develop technology that will improve the performance of UK athletes.
The challenge
Although commercially available ergometers can provide many benefits to athletes in training, they do not accurately replicate the same sensation of inertia and dynamic loading otherwise experienced on a real bicycle. This means that when the rider of an ergometer stops pedalling, the machine quickly comes to a halt, whereas a real bicycle would decelerate over a much longer period.
It also means that a sprint cyclist using the same equipment would be able to accelerate in an unrealistically short time. It soon became clear that new equipment needed to be developed which considered the factors of inertia and dynamic loading, to offer a much more realistic cycling experience.
Our solution
Frazer-Nash has been a technical innovation partner to UK Sport in the run up to both the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympic Games.
