With the rising pattern for on-bike baggage and the explosion of gravel using and bikepacking, Merlin are delighted to have the ability to add Apidura to our vary right here. Accessible on-line for rapid transport, or to view in our Chorley showroom, Apidura have been utilized by a few of the greatest riders all around the world. Whether or not it’s for a neighborhood gravel journey, or an enormous trans-continental journey, Apidura have choices out there for all.
We sit down with Dean Hill from Apidura to seek out out extra concerning the model, what they’re about, and a dive into their baggage.
We imagine the very best adventures begin with the precise necessities. Designed with precision and goal, our merchandise are made to assist riders, explorers, and on a regular basis journeys alike. We’re excited to start this new partnership with Merlin, and hope it can encourage and empower much more individuals to hunt out new adventures. Dean Hill, Apidura
Apidura are an impartial, family-run enterprise of cyclists, makers, and drawback solvers, united by a shared mission to carry accountable journey to a neighborhood of like-minded cyclists. Our ultralight carry options, born from necessity, assist us take our love of biking additional and permit riders to unlock their intuition for journey.
Our enterprise, and the way we run it, is the results of our option to method the world in a manner that aligns with the bikepacking rules of treading flippantly, constructing connections, and taking duty and possession for all features of our adventures.
We’re in pursuit of fixed ahead progress in direction of higher adventures, for a rising neighborhood of like-minded individuals who share our perception {that a} extra sustainable and cyclical method to merchandise and practices is our future.
The Apidura Design Ethos
Our merchandise are Constructed to Final and are Designed for Restore. Since prolonging a product’s helpful lifespan reduces the necessity to use extra sources to provide new merchandise, we’ve put longevity on the coronary heart of our sustainability ethos. Each story of a pack well-used, fastened, worn and refurbished is an indication {that a} product resides as much as our values.
Constructed to Final
Our supplies, processes, and manufacturing strategies are all designed to reject deliberate obsolescence and prioritise long-term sturdiness. We construct our packs to go the gap – whether or not it’s a weekend journey or journey all over the world. Each pack is constructed utilizing Welded Waterproof expertise, delivering dependable waterproofing, lowered weight, and enhanced structural power. Constructed to final, constructed for journey.
Designed for Restore
Designing packs that may be repaired means fewer wasted supplies and longer adventures. One of many advantages of repairing packs is that we get an perception into the way in which our packs are used and numerous methods they get broken – perception that’s fed again into our design and growth course of. Every pack that is available in tells a narrative. Tales that our product workforce learn like forensic investigators; an overloaded pack, restricted clearance resulting in tire rub or crash injury are all identified and repaired.
Supporting the Scene – Races & Occasions Supported by Apidura
Bikepacking has the potential to be recognised globally as an inclusive and low-impact sport. Apidura goals to play an element in realising these ambitions by actively partnering with bikepacking occasions that maintain sustainable, accessible and secure practices at their coronary heart.
We’re proud to sponsor a lot of fastidiously chosen occasions that enable individuals all over the world to expertise bikepacking races with out having to cross continents. This has turn into more and more vital to encourage cyclists to contemplate worldclass biking challenges with out the necessity to fly into a distinct a part of the world.
The occasions we assist embody:
The TransContinental Bursary
Apidura contributes towards the TCR bursary, which helps new riders with the sources they should compete. The bursary has helped make it attainable for 12 cyclists who in any other case might not have been in a position to tackle this problem, to make it to the beginning line. Apidura has been a part of the bursary since its inception and can proceed to assist the work achieved by the TCR and different like-minded companions working to increase our neighborhood.
Our Merchandise
Precision Crafted Technical Tools
By specializing in operate and embracing a precision crafted method that integrates expertise and fashionable fabrication methods, Apidura has raised the usual for bikepacking gear. We work carefully with suppliers all over the world, together with the USA, Europe and Asia, to supply superior supplies to assist our designs. Our packs are precision crafted by our manufacturing companions in China and the Philippines, the place we’re in a position to work with extremely expert craftspeople and make use of leading edge expertise to remain on the forefront of innovation.
Light-weight, Waterproof & Sturdy
Bikepacking gear is your lifeline on the highway and within the backcountry. To maintain your gear secure and dry, baggage must be waterproof and sturdy, and to take care of bike dealing with they must be light-weight and balanced. We work straight with main manufacturing companions (or textile mills) to develop our personal supplies to be utterly waterproof and intensely sturdy with out extra bulk and use options like invisible labyrinth air valves so as to add operate with out including weight or complexity.
Operate-First Design
We imagine in designing to unravel particular issues and including solely the options that carry purposeful advantages and improve the usability of our merchandise. That is balanced with eradicating complexity to make sure designs work as nicely if you’re mid-adventure as they do for the commute or night journey with mates.
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