Hartlett Axle Systems Ltd.
  • necessity
  • genesis
  • development
  • acceptance
  • licensing

the spark

It's winter 2003 and we are looking at ways to combine bolted axles and traditional quick releases. Nick tells us about some ideas he's been working on - and with these as our foundation, we design what we have today.

​We didn't realize at the time,
but we had just invented what is now the de facto standard for bike thru-axles.
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development