Ellsworth Handcrafted Bicycles

Elsworth Handcrafted Bicycles Inc. is a high end bicycle manufacturer based in California, United States with manufacturing in Vancouver, Washington. [http://www.bicycleretailer.com/news/newsDetail/390.html Bicycle Retailer and Industry News] ]

The company was founded by Tony Ellsworth and has a range of trail, free ride and road bikes [http://www.ellsworthbikes.com/ellsworth-bikes.php Ellsworth bike range] ] . Ellsworth also produce a designer/cruiser bike known as "The Ride" [http://www.ellsworthride.com/ Ellsworth - The Ride] ]

History

Company founded by Tony Ellsworth.

Innovation

Ellsworth incorporated a type of continuously variable transmission (CVT) system into their "The Ride" model bicycle. The system is known as the Nuvinci and is a continuously variable planetary (CVP) form of transmission. [http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/bike-by-ellsworth-transmission-by-leonardo-da-vinci-247436.php Gizmodo article on Ellsworth bike CVT] ] [http://www.fallbrooktech.com/NuVinci.asp Fallbrook Technologies page on Nuvinci] ] [http://www.ellsworthride.com/pdf/070820_mensJournal.pdf Men's Journal article on "The Ride", September 2007. Vol 16, No. 8] ]

Products

2007 Range

Trail bikes:
* Truth
* Evolve
* Epiphany
* Witness

Freeride:
* Moment
* Rogue
* Specialist

Road bikes:
* Scant

Other:
* The Ride

External links

* [http://www.ellsworthbikes.com Ellsworth website]

References