The Journey Takes a Turn
What to do with the Invention?
Once a patent application was filed and the 2nd prototype built, a trip to Canada was planned to promote the system to manufacturers. Labelled as VAST for Variable Anti Squat Technology.
Discussions with Commencal
Discussions with Commencal commenced and they were showing interest in this system.
Another Inventor
Another Inventor
While at Whistler to promote the Z-Link System I discovered that Damon Madsen had separately invented the same system and filed a patent application first.
Further commercialisation of the system was therefore dropped by Bhaack.
Commencal Meta V5
Commencal prototyped the system in 2023 and began using the "Z-Link" platform across their 2024 Meta range of bikes.
Its good to see the technology out in the world.
(Image courtesy of Commencal)