Product Description

Loopwheels are shock-absorbing wheels with integral suspension, designed for enhanced performance and greater comfort, developed at the request of wheelchair users. Loopwheels give you a smoother, more comfortable ride and enable you to go more places, more easily.

Carbon composite springs replace conventional spokes, providing a superior suspension system that constantly adjusts to uneven terrain. Loopwheels are more comfortable than standard wheels: the carbon springs absorb tiring vibration, as well as bumps and shocks. They're extremely strong and durable, needing little or no maintenance.

Loopwheels for wheelchairs help the user (or their carer) push over uneven streets, rough tracks and gravel paths, with less effort, and the carbon springs give you extra power to get up or down kerbs. Loopwheels fit most manual wheelchairs: they use standard 1/2 inch quick release axles and are available in 24" and 25" diameter sizes. They come ready fitted with a standard black aluminium push rim, set at either 11mm or 19mm from the wheel rim (narrow or wide fitting). Tyres are not supplied: we recommend Schwalbe Marathon Plus, which are widely available to buy.

Loopwheels are designed, engineered and made in Nottinghamshire by Jelly Products Ltd. It is a registered design with patents pending. We are proud to be a British manufacturer of a world-class innovation in wheel technology, making a difference to people's daily lives.

Manufacturer's Description

These 24" and 25" wheels for manual wheelchairs make life easier and more comfortable. Loopwheels help you roll up and down kerbs, over cobbles, uneven paving and on softer tracks and paths, with less effort.

You'll find you can ascend or come down a kerb much more easily with loopwheels. The power of the springs helps you roll up over the kerb, with less effort. The springs cushion you from jolting too.

Carbon composite springs replace conventional spokes, providing a superior suspension system that constantly adjusts to uneven terrain. The carbon springs absorb tiring vibration, as well as bumps and shocks.

The loopwheel hub constantly adjusts to any unevenness in terrain that the wheels encounter. The hub can move in every plane, not just up and down.

Choice of either a wide (19mm) or narrow (11mm) distance between the wheel and push rim. Tyres are not included. Schwalbe Marathon Plus are recommended and are widely available.

We reinvented the wheel, to give you a smoother ride. Whether the path ahead is rough or smooth, loopwheels will absorb the shocks.

Describe your product in 3 words.

Super-smooth suspension

How did you come up with the idea for this product?

I saw a woman pushing her child in a buggy. She approached a kerb straight on, and hit the front wheels of the buggy against it. This jolted the child forward. There was a suspension system on that pushchair, but it did nothing to help when the wheels hit an obstacle head on. I asked myself: why don't wheels have suspension inside them? That way they'd cushion the rider from any bump.

What makes your product special?

Reinventing the wheel has to be pretty special! People have been trying to put suspension inside a wheel for centuries, but they couldn't make it work. Loopwheels use springs made from an amazing modern carbon composite material, which flexes and yet is very strong. The whole system constantly adjusts to any bump or change in terrain and absorbs low level vibration and big shocks too.

What has been the best part of your startup experience?

Seeing the smile on people's faces when they ride on loopwheels for the first time - and realising we can make a difference to people's lives every day. If you use a wheelchair, you're in it a lot. So being comfortable is really, really important. The reward in developing a new product is knowing people really like it and want it.