Lauf Cycles is an Icelandic bicycle brand based in Reykjavik, Iceland. They specialise in gravel bikes.
The Lauf Forks idea was born over a cold bike-ride aprés beer in a cramped basement apartment in Reykjavik around Christmas-time 2010. Avid mountain biker and engineer Benedikt Skulason, at the time working as an R&D engineer for a high-end composite prosthetic feet company, pitched his idea of a super-light revolutionary bicycle suspension fork to his good friend and industrial designer Gudberg Bjornsson.
They are most commonly known for their invention of the Lauf Spring: a pivotless trailing link fork.[1] A set of glass fiber[2] springs are attached between the wheel set and the forks of a bike.[3] Manufacturing is done in Iceland, with subsidiary dealers found in both Europe and the United States.
The company gained media attention when Canadian Cyclocross National Champion,[4] Michael Van Den Ham[5] used Lauf bikes for his successful competition wins in 2018.[6]
In 2023, Lauf launched the Úthald (meaning "endurance" in Icelandic), marking their first foray into the road bike market.[7]
Lauf pivotless, trailing link fork
^"Lauf Grit - Outline of Lauf Spring Design". www.laufcycling.com. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
^Schuster, Zachary (2018-07-18). "Pro Bike: Michael Van den Ham's 2018 DK 200 Lauf True Grit Gravel Bike". Cyclocross Magazine - Cyclocross and Gravel News, Races, Bikes, Media. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
^Schuster, Zachary (2017-11-02). "Interview: Michael van den Ham on Winning 2017 Canadian Nationals". Cyclocross Magazine - Cyclocross and Gravel News, Races, Bikes, Media. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
^"Why Lauf has launched a road bike – and the thinking behind it". www.bikeradar.com. Retrieved 2024-05-17.
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