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PRESS

Kú Cycle media coverage

2023
EASY FM Tech & Innovatie RADIO PROGRAM

JULY 2023

NETHERLANDS

How Does the KÚ Ride?

This week in the studio: Danny Frietman, Quartermaster ICT & Tech at the Municipality of Almere, about the latest tech developments, Almere’s high-tech ambitions and seizing opportunities in the field of AI and smart cities. And Alex Bok, co-founder of Kú Cycle, about disrupting triathlon worldwide, the connection with Ferrari’s Formula 1 team and growing in a niche…

MAY 2023

United States

How Does the KÚ Ride?

I didn’t like the KÚ bike… necessarily. I liked the idea of the KÚ bike and that’s why I’m spending quite a bit of time on this brand. As to that gap between the bike in theory and in practice it’s like …

FEBRUARY 2023

United States

Buy From a Bike Shop or Direct?

I tried as a consumer to buy products from the manufacturer as far back as 1985, the year before I first entered the industry side of triathlon, so I’m sympathetic to the urge to bypass the middleman…

April 2023

United States

KÚ Cycle: Rewriting Bike Design and Pathways to Purchase

Today I’ll talk about the process of ordering a KÚ Cycle TF1, a tri bike generating a lot of talk on our Reader Forum. It’s about the wildest looking tri bike you’re likely to see but it’s not wholly apart in its design…

carbon3d.com

February 2023

United States

Working Together to Improve the Performance of Triathletes

Kú Cycle worked with Carbon production partner QDP B.V. to create the built-to-order TF1 triathlon bike. QDP produced numerous critical components for Kú Cycle’s high-end custom …

3DNATIVES.com

February 2023

United States

Kú Cycle Improves Athletes’ Performance with Built-to-Order TF1 Triathlon Bike

In sports like triathlon, what matters most is being the fastest. And though of course the athlete is largely responsible for the speed, high performance equipment is also paramount to going as fast as possible…

2022
slowtwitch.com

October 2022

United States

Today’s Strange Looking Tri Bikes

There’s a new kind of strange looking bike in triathlon. Actually, there’s more than one of these and if three brands makes it critical mass then we’ve achieved critical mass, and that makes it worth talking about.

Transition Magazine

JULY 2022 – Issue 29

Netherlands

DAAN DE GROOT ‘Mezelf blijven verbeteren’

De afgelopen twee jaar waren er vanwege het coronavirus maar weinig wedstrijden. Duatleet Daan de Groot had er niet zoveel moeite mee. Er was voor hem genoeg afleiding…

THESPECTRUM.COM

8 MAy – 2022

USA – California

How dealing with dwarfism hasn’t stopped Zachary Josie
from becoming an IRONMAN athlete

Zachary Josie’s journey to becoming an IRONMAN athlete has been anything but standard. Born with Ellis-van Creveld (EVC) syndrome, the less common form of dwarfism…

RIDE Magazine

FEB / March 2022 – Issue 02 – 01

Netherlands

Ultrasporten is makkelijker dan men denkt

Het heeft 38 jar geduurd voordat de zwemmer zijn liefde voor de fiets heeft ontdekt. Olymisch kampioen Maarten van der Weijden is een internationale bekend geworden sinds hij in 2019 de Elfstedenzwemtocht wrijwel non-stop in ruim drie dagenoflegde…

2021
Triathlon Magazine

July 2020 – Issue 191

GERMANY 

Kolossales custom-bike

Der niederlandische Custom-Hersteller Kú Cycle und Maarten Van der Weijden arbeiten seit diesem Jahr zusammen, um ungewöhnliche Projekte anzugehen…

220 Triathlon Magazine

April 2021 – Issue 388

UK

KÚ TF1

Formula 1 engineering meets industry-First bike design and geometry, with a focus on biomechanics and rider plus bike unity. The result? A triathlon bike, but not as you know it…

Triathlete Magazine USA

March / April 2021

USA

ALL NEW, ALL YOU

While Netherlands-based Kú Cycle isn’t the first bike company to produce a fully custom aero tri frame, it might be the first one to do it in such an extreme way.

TRIMAG FRANCE

February 2021

FRANCE

KÚ TF1

Une rèelle innovation produit: un design innovant, avee notamment la fourche Fork Air Stream Technology (FAST) . inspirée des formules 1.

TRIMAG.FR

February 2021

FRANCE

Kú Cycle, nouveau venu sur le marché des vélos triathlon

La rencontre entre un entrepreneur et un ancien ingénieur de F1 a donné aujourd’hui naissance à la marque de cycles Kú Cycle

2020
RTL - How it’s Done

December 2020 – Broadcast

NETHERLANDS

HOW IT’S DONE

Informative program that takes a look behind the scenes of small and medium-sized businesses. Entrepreneurs and business leaders talk candidly about how they realize their products and services, what drives them and where their strengths lie.

Triathlon Magazine

November 2020 – Issue 185

GERMANY – By Marcus Baranski

KÚ TF1

New bikes are a popular theme for triathletes. Be it on your own level or just novelties on the market for professional athletes. Probably no bike has created so many discussions …

ENDURANCE.BIZ

October 26, 2020

UK – By Gary

Aiming to disrupt the bike category: new Kú TF1 triathlon bike

Kú Cycle founders Richard McAinsh and Alex Bok have brought together a combination of Formula 1 engineering expertise – winning seven world championships (Ferrari and Benetton) – and managing a professional triathlon team that produced 49 IRONMAN wins and 5 world champions (TEAMTBB).

TRISPORTMAG.COM.BR

October 16, 2020

BRASIL

KÚ CYCLE LANÇA BIKE INOVADORA NO MERCADO

Novo fabricante de bicicletas no mercado de triathlon, com o primeiro e até agora único modelo, a startup holandesa Kú Cycle quer abrir novos caminhos – e vai se polarizar por mais de um motivo. Mesmo que a marca provavelmente não seja conhecida por muitos…

TRIKIPEDIA.NL

October 15, 2020

NETHERLANDS – By Ruud de Haan

Introductie van nieuw Nederlands fietsmerk Kú Cycle en Kú TF1 triatlon fiets

Wat gebeurt er als een getalenteerde Formule 1 ingenieur die een revolutionair fiets ontwerp in zijn achterzak heeft zitten een ondernemer ontmoet die erop uit is om de fietsindustrie opnieuw vorm te geven?

TRI247.COM

October 15, 2020

UK – By John Levison

Kú Cycle launches innovative new triathlon bike

Brand new from Dutch start up, Kú Cycle (www.ku-cycle.com), is their Kú TF1 triathlon bike. If you feel that much of the industry and many of the designs are almost merging into one and aspire for something different, this article – and the TF1 – could well be for you.

TRI-MAG.DE

October 15, 2020

GERMANY – By Marcus Baranski

Komplett ohne Steuerrohr:
Niederländisches Rad-Start-up Kú Cycle geht mit dem TF1 neue Wege

Neuer Radhersteller auf dem Triathlonmarkt: Mit dem ersten und bislang einzigen Modell will das niederländische Start-up Kú Cycle neue Wege gehen – …

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