UK company to manufacture bike knee device for amputees

From Singletrack mountain biking magazine. You can see a video of the device here.

It is almost impossible for those of us who struggle to ride bikes competently with a full complement of functioning limbs to imagine the difficulties that must accompany riding a bike with a prosthetic limb.

However, PACE Rehabilitation, a private, UK based rehabilitation centre are helping make it an easier and more possible scenario.

They have become the sole commercial UK supplier of the ‘Bartlett Tendon’, a prosthetic knee device, designed by professional American downhill rider and above-the-knee amputee, Brian Bartlett (pictured).

Using a Rock Shox unit, Brian has designed his own knee device which allows riders, who have had above-the-knee amputations, to stand and sprint out of the saddle, something which was previously inconceivable for this type of amputation.

British Mountain Biking enthusiast Glenn Johnstone has been trialling the knee device recently and PACE are now set to begin providing the ‘Bartlett Tendon’ to other patients.