Carbon engineering since 2008
Carbon, engineered
and proven.
We design, test and make carbon bicycle components. Our frames won design awards and our filament wound rims won a Eurobike Award. Today we build Venn rims and wheels, and we help other brands build theirs.
What we do
01
OEM and engineering
Layup design, CFD, prototyping, EN testing and managed production in Taiwan for brands that need carbon parts done right.
How we work →
02
Venn rims and wheels
Our own brand. Carbon rims for road, gravel and mountain bikes, and complete wheels built to order.
See the range →
03
Trade accounts
Wheel builders, shops and brands buy Venn rims at trade prices, in USD, EUR, GBP, AUD or JPY.
Trade shop →
Evidence, not stories
We test, we research, then we do it again. Everything below can be checked.
- Eurobike Award 2015
- Filament wound carbon rims
- For winding continuous fibre around the rim profile instead of laying up cut patches. The same Venn Rev 35 rims also won a Taipei Cycle d&i award and a Golden Pin Design Award in 2015, and the first Flanders Bike Valley Start-up Innovation Award in 2017.
- iF Design ยท d&i award 2012
- Helios Aero frame
- Combined iF Design and Taipei Cycle d&i award, bicycle category. Designed with Lewis Mathiske.
- National Entrepreneurship Award 2010
- Taiwan business awards
- One of ten national entrepreneurship awards, chosen from 80 applicants, followed in 2011 by the Taiwan Excellent Enterprise Quality Award.
- Patents
- Filament wound rims, concave down tube
- Taiwan patents TW I607894 (2017) and TW I634964 (2018) for Victor Major's method of making carbon rims by filament winding, the first of its kind. Three international patents on the Syn down tube that keeps a bike aerodynamic with a bottle fitted (Taiwan application 104104486).
- Research partners
- NCHC, NCKU, Oxeon, Acer
- CFD and genetic algorithm optimisation on the NCHC GPU supercomputer (2012); TeXtreme spread tow carbon research with Oxeon; Acer high performance servers; long standing work with National Cheng Kung University.
- Testing
- EN standards, EFBe and CHC
- Safety products tested to EN standards; frame stiffness validated by independent test centres.
Technology
What we know how to do
Filament winding
Continuous fibre wound around the rim profile, instead of hundreds of cut patches. Eurobike Award winner.
Carbon layup
Multi-modulus UD layups, up to 13 layers where the loads are, and nothing where they are not.
Aerodynamics
CFD with LES turbulence modelling and rotating wheels, and wind tunnel validation.
Testing
EN safety testing, stiffness measured on every frame we made, results validated by EFBe and CHC.
Heritage
Frames that set the bar
From titanium and our first carbon frames to the patented Syn. Raced from Boston criteriums to the first Women's Tour of Britain, a Belgian Continental team and the Race Across America.
Why Velocite exists
Started by a rider who wanted the truth about carbon.
Velocite was started in 2008 for one reason: to make the best product for the purpose, and to prove it. We do not employ industrial designers. Form follows function, and every design choice is backed by simulation, testing and riding.
That also means we can afford what larger brands cannot: better fibre and more of it where it matters, because we are not carrying tens of thousands of frames in inventory.
Working on a carbon product?
Tell us what you are making and what it has to do. We will tell you honestly whether we can help.