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Box craft: when bike storage gets stylish

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 The clatter of a beloved carbon bike hitting the deck is enough to make many a cyclist squirm in discomfort. If you’re lucky, you see the fall happen in slow motion and are able to make that mad lunge forward to catch your prized possession before it crashes to the floor.

Hallways, living rooms, spare bedrooms are not always a convenient place to store your high-end bike. This was the exact situation James Doughty was grappling with; fed up with the lack of storage he decided to create his own. The Velohawk journey began.

Doughty set out a high-end bike storage criteria: it needed to be strong and secure enough to keep outside the house as well as beautifully crafted to position inside the house and be admired for its architectural design.

To create the best carbon fibre storage, Doughty reached out to British composite and engineering firm Penso Composites UK to manufacture the end product to the standard he envisioned.

Penso are not new to the innovative world of performance materials. Their client portfolio boasts the likes of Aston Martin, McLaren, Bentley, Jaguar, Mercedes Benz as well as working with the aerospace, defence and rail industries.

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