FORM is a UK-based design company with the aim of elevating bike fitting products to a new standard.
Founder Ronan Descy, a fitter with 14 years’ experience, had a growing frustration with limitations of existing products on the market. Drawing on his experience as a fitter he started to prototype and experiment with ways he could overcome the limitations he’d experienced. The result is a range of products that he believes offer fitters new solutions.
Now you might ask how you can add functionality to the lowly cleat wedge or leg length shim but there are some clever little touches on these parts that demonstrate that the designer actually works with these products day in and out.
For instance, the in-shoe forefoot wedges are a one size fits all which makes stocking really simple and are made of a pleasant tactile material which seems to prevent them slipping around in the shoe even without a holding tape. They are also Toeless so if the client’s shoes have a low volume toe box, then the wedge isn’t taking up precious space.
The MTB cleat wedges are also pretty neat with an anti rotation tab on them and they can take quite a torque on them without crushing.
I think the star of the show within this range though is the walkable MTB LLD shim. Its been great to be able to pop a shim on that doesn’t then totally negate the main reason for using the smaller metal cleat system. The only issues with these that we have seen is that they can be a little too big for some shoes cleat opening, which we have gotten around with the judicial use of a bench grinder but Ronan informs us that a V2 version of the shim to accommodate shoes with limited space at the cleat insert is on its way along with at a Time ATAC/ Crank Bros compatible option.
For more info you can check out the range at www.form-bikefit.co.uk
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