Adaptive cycling: the trail belongs to everyone

Most bikes aren’t designed; they’re inherited. The geometry that worked for a 5’10” able-bodied man fifty years ago still drives every catalogue today, and most riders quietly compromise.

A summer ago a lad rode up beside me on a Perthshire estate path with a calf-leg prosthetic and a trainer fitted to the pedal. He’d been told three times the bike he wanted couldn’t be modified. He’d done it himself in his shed.

Every frame we now ask Eahora to send us has to pass three quiet tests: a low step-over (under 16”), adjustable crank length, and pedal mounts that can be replaced for trainers, hand-cranks, or recumbent attachments.

It costs us nothing extra. It just requires asking. The mountain never asked anyone a question; we won’t either.