Bike Valley receives 500.000 euro as ‘Factory of the Future’

Today the Flanders regional government set aside 500,000 Euros to help fund the Bike Valley initiative founded by 5 of Belgium’s most forward thinking corporations; Ridley Bikes, Lazer (helmets), BioRacer (clothing), EnergyLab (athletic performance center) and Flanders Drive (mobility knowledge center). As part of the “Flanders in Action” program, created to establish factories of the future in the region, the funding will be used to establish the most advanced R&D facility focused on the aerodynamics and technologies of human power. It will mainly be used for the construction of a bicycle-specific wind tunnel”, says Marc Hufkens of Bike Valley. “Such a wind tunnel, which doesn’t exist in Europe, clearly indicates our ambition of making Bike Valley the first worldwide, cross border, open innovation competence hub of everything related to bicycles.”