If you have an official UCI ranking or belong to a professional cycling team, we are interested in hearing from you to discuss the details of our sponsorship program!

Other cyclists are also open to apply; please send us an e-mail / short letter about why you think you deserve to be sponsored and we’ll consider it. Remember that all sponsored athletes are effectively ambassadors to our company - that means you should be willing to represent Vertebræ, to talk about our products and their performance to other riders at each and every opportunity.

If you would like to link to us, you can copy and paste the following html code into your website:

Link with transparent Vertebrae logo optimised for white backgrounds:

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Link with Vertebrae logo optimised for black or dark backgrounds:

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Vertebrae simple text link:

<br /><a href=”http://www.vertebr.ae” title=”Vertebrae, the most advanced cable housing in the world.”>Vertebrae Ceramic Components</a><br />

(feel free to change the anchor and title text for something more appropriate if you know how)

This artifact is believed to have originated before the Quaternary period, but some time after the Pliocene to upper Miocene era. It was found buried on the Northern coast of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, a place not normally associated with these types of discoveries.

What’s interesting about these particular remnants is that vastly different various materials and fabrication methods were used throughout construction. The majority of the mechanism which is now brown in colour has been completely “fossilised” and is no longer functional. However, the white components have not experienced any visible signs of degradation. Upon closer inspection, this strange device works quite effectively - it is still able to resist compressive forces yet remains completely flexible. There is no sign of any cables in the immediate vicinity (possibly they were lost or stolen before burial), but this remarkable housing appears completely intact, despite being exposed to the elements for around 5-20 million years!

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Firstly, a big thankyou to www.light-bikes.de who posted this news story about Vertebrae last Monday the 10th of August. We are continuing to receive a great number of vistors through that article, as well as the additional forum comments!

Next we’d like to acknowledge Jason from fairwheelbikes for this excellent review.

Thanks also for the special mention by the following blogs: nippleworks, cozybeehive, allthingsfo and 2wheelspot (even though the tone of the last two were definitely tongue-in-cheek).

Here’s what people are saying about Vertebrae in other countries: Read the rest of this entry »

Let’s face it: anyone who rides both on and offroad knows that even current road bikes have less-than-ideal brakes. With the advent of 8 and 9″ rotors, braided lines and quad piston calipers for downhill MTBs, “lame” is probably a better word. Road bikes are faster than their cross-country MTB counterparts, so they should really be equipped with more powerful brakes. In this article, this logic is questioned in depth. Read the rest of this entry »

As of next month, Vertebrae is proud to introduce 4 new colour options:
• Grey
• Hot pink (UV reactive)
• Neon green (UV reactive)
• Glow in the dark

Vertebrae gear and brake housing assembly and installation instructions now available to download online in pdf format.

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The human vertebral column is a segmented design composed of bone (which is essentially a ceramic matrix composite) and inter-vertebral discs made of cartilage (a complex polymeric material).

Just like our Vértebræ Brake Housing, the human spine is a flexible structure that can support loads that are many times its own weight. Read the rest of this entry »

I have wanted to introduce new materials to the bicycle industry for some time. While ceramic bearings are now becoming more and more prevalent, these are a relatively standardised parts and have been used for over 30 years in the aviation / aerospace industry. I believe vertebrae components are pioneering in a way because [to my knowledge] they are the first ceramic part that have been specifically designed, created and mass-produced for bicycles. Read the rest of this entry »

As many of you know, I am still in the testing phase for the brakes… They’re a lot less critical to longitudinal dimensional changes than the gear cables. Hence I was previously using ultra-thin mylar washers in between each one of the ceramic segments (to act as a buffer and thereby increase their ultimate strength when connected in series). The custom-made mylar washers were about the thinnest you can get and cost an absolute fortune, but even so, the braking became a little too mushy as a result. Read the rest of this entry »

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