Veni Vidi Vinci -- Awards & Honors

The Latin expression "veni vidi, vinci" translates essentially as "I came, I saw, I conquered."  This describes what happens when someone experiences NuVinci® technology in action for the first time, whether on a NuVinci-equipped bicycle, electric scooter, or on one of our larger prototype applications, except it is the technology that does the conquering!

2007 Best of What's New
Grand Award - Recreation Category
Ellsworth The Ride™ with NuVinci N170 CVP
Popular Science Magazine
November 2007

Popular Science Magazine selects the NuVinci-equipped The RideT Performance Lifestyle bicycle by Ellsworth Handcrafted Bicycles its "Grand Award" in the Recreation category for Best of What's New 2007. Ellsworth was the first American bicycle maker to embrace NuVinci technology and design a new performance, lifestyle bike around the revolutionary, smooth-shifting CVP drivetrain.

For 20 years, Popular Science's "Best of What's New" awards have honored innovations that make a positive impact on life today and the future. The editors of the magazine evaluate thousands of products each year. "Best of What's New" awards are presented to 100 new products and technologies in 10 categories: Automotive, Aviation & Space, Computing, Engineering, Gadgets, Green Tech, Home Entertainment, Home Tech, Personal Health and Recreation. A Grand Award is given to one product in each category.

2007 "97 Perfect Things"
Ellsworth The Ride™ with NuVinci N170 CVP
Men's Health Magazine
September 2007

The NuVinci-equipped Ellsworth The RideT Performance Lifestyle bicycle is chosen by Men's Health Magazine as one of the "World's Best Gear, Tech, Tools and Toys" of 2007. Featured in the magazine's annual "Style and Design / Perfect Things" issue, the bike is described as having an "elegant, curvaceous frame" and a smooth-shifting NuVinci continuously variable transmission that means "no more clickety-clacking, century-old contraption called the derailleur."

2007 R&D 100 Award
NuVinci N170 CVP Drivetrain
R&D Magazine
July 2007

The NuVinci CVP transmission is selected as one of the 100 most technically significant products of the year worldwide by R&D Magazine. The R&D 100 Awards are one of the most prestigious honors in the field of industrial research. Winners are selected by an independent panel of experts and by the editors of R&D magazine. Entries are judged on a wide range of criteria, including potential to change people's lives for the better, level of improvement over competing technologies, and what the magazine describes as the "Wow! factor" - products that provide simple, elegant solutions to complex or long-standing technical or practical problems. Over the years, the Awards have recognized products such as Polacolor film (1963), the automated teller machine (ATM) (1973), the fax machine (1975), the industrial robot (1981), silicon nitride bearing material (1986), and the Toyota hybrid system (1998).

The first European Commuter bicycle equipped with the NuVinci CVP drivetrain and the NuVinci CVP drivetrain itself were both honored with the competition's top awards at the FietsVak Bicycle Show in Rosmalen, The Netherlands. The Netherlands is considered one of the world's most influential bike markets because of its very large percentage of bike ownership - the highest per capita in the world. The Bike of the Year and Technology Innovation of the Year awards are the highest honors given by the country's bike industry, with manufacturers worldwide competing every year. An international group of industry experts judge the entries based on design innovation, execution, ride quality, and other factors. The Adagio-NuVinci model commuter/pleasure bike is manufactured by Batavus BV, The Netherlands' premier bicycle company.

2004 Interbike's "Most Potential"
NuVinci CVP Bicycle Drivetrain
Interbike 2004, Las Vegas
James Huang, Cyclenews
October 2004 ;

James Huang selected three products at Interbike 2004 as the year's most significant. The Fallbrook NuVinci CVP drivetrain would be honored with the "Most Potential." It was here where the NuVinci concept was first previewed to the bicycle industry. Still a prototype at the time of what was later to become the first commercially available continuously variable transmission (CVT) for bicycles some two years later, Mr. Huang wrote in his post show best of review, "Fallbrook Technologies is not a brand name that most people will associate with cycling, but their NuVinci CVP drivetrain might just change that perception a bit in the coming years. NuVinci isn't even on the market yet, but they're targeting the recreational riders first since the system is allegedly so easy and intuitive to use, even for beginners who would normally balk at the army of shift levers that currently reside on most bikes. What makes this system so significant is what impact it could have on the high performance MTB market. Keep an eye on these guys in the years to come."