Some testing times

A few people in the know, and the keen eyed cyclists in and around the testing area’s - primarily the Kent and Surrey lanes south of the Bowman HQ - have seen a couple of iterations of our first products being tested over the last 19 months. From first frame drawing, through design revisions with the CAD team in Taiwan right up to the building up of prototype frames, it all builds toward one moment. The first pedal stroke put down in anger on local roads known as well as the rear of proverbial appendages, is the first moment where, as a bike designer, you get any confirmation that the ideas transfer to the real world.
From the moment you roll out from under a workshop garage door, through the ten minute chilly warm-up, past the first turn into lanes from suburban back roads, right through to summiting the first climb aboard a product that has never before graced this planets surface - we learn. And then we descend, and the all become comprehendable. Within an hour on local roads, you will know if you have the basis of a gem. Truly unsound designs make themselves known pretty quickly, so getting to the base of the first sinuous decent in a positive frame of mind is a great moment. It means we have some serious testing to do to fettle the minutiae. Not just a reason, but a need to ride - whatever the weather - it is one of the true joys of running Bowman Cycles. The testing and development is something we’re very proud of, but also exceptionally happy to be doing.

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