AFFIX-System
What is the AFFIX-System?
Well, AFFIX-System is one of the most innovative modern bicycle brands and is above all a source of ideas and resulting patents. It's not about developing a specific product, but rather about offering a concept or improvement that can be adapted in many different ways. Or taking an old concept to a whole new level. Over the years, several great innovations have seen the light of day and are used in many different products.
The AFFIX Rotor
BMX has been developed and revolutionized several times over the past decades. And now it was time to go one step further again. Until now, the basic mechanism of a BMX brake was one of the following two: A traditional long cable or a rotor. A cable limits a certain number of handlebar turns with increasing friction, and a rotor is a complicated and large set of cables and screws from top to bottom.
Our goal was to take the best of both and combine them into one: a sleek design, no increase in friction or restriction of bar movement, yet simple to maintain and easy to install. We are very proud to have accomplished just that.
We call it "the AFFIX rotor".
Click HERE to watch the Youtube video of the AFFIX Rotor.
How does the rotor work?
As you can see in the video above, we have built the rotor completely internally. No split or duplicate cables and a reduction to only three screws total, while retaining all the benefits of both the cable and the traditional rotor.
Instead of splitting the cable in two and rejoining it, we chose the direct route through the steering tube. We found that there is enough space between the steerer tube and the steering tube to allow two small washers to rotate without external or internal friction.
Starting from the brake lever, the upper cable goes directly into the steering tube and has a bridge at its end that holds and locks the lower part of the rotor. Above it is the upper part of the rotor, which is connected to the lower cable of the system that ends at the rear brakes. Due to the low forces acting on both the steerer tube and the steering tube, it is possible to cut vertical slots that allow a neat cable routing.
KHE STRIKEDOWN PRO WITH AFFIX ROTOR
