{"id":186614,"date":"2025-11-21T12:21:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tourelly.com\/aspekt-development-october-2023-january-2024\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T12:23:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:23:03","slug":"aspekt-development-october-2023-january-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tourelly.com\/en\/aspekt-development-october-2023-january-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspekt Development (October 2023 \u2013 January 2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From Idea to Tangible Form \u2013 the beginning of real product development.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The aws program opened many doors for us. One of them led to one of the most important partners in our journey so far: <strong>Aspekt Development.<\/strong> We met the Aspekt team through the funding program, presented our idea of a round, double-sided pedal \u2013 and decided to continue working together.<\/p>\n<p>At that point, TOURELLY was still purely function-focused: the first version was designed for MTB and Gravel \u2013 robust and simple.<\/p>\n<p>But in parallel, together with Aspekt and through the aws mentoring, we began developing the idea of dual functionality \u2013 a pedal that works both on the road and off-road.<\/p>\n<p>Between October 2023 and January 2024, countless intermediate stages were created: 3D-printed parts, some hand-finished, some early metal prototypes. Some survived a few tests \u2013 others broke within minutes. But every attempt brought us closer to a goal we could define clearly for the first time: <strong>a pedal that is round, intuitive, lightweight, and simple.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Together with Aspekt, we defined TOURELLY\u2019s first USPs during this period:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>360\u00b0 entry with no required orientation<\/li>\n<li>a defined spring mechanism with a clearly perceptible click<\/li>\n<li>a functional, reduced design<\/li>\n<li>weight and material usage as efficient as possible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Because the budget was limited, we could only build the dual-function version as a 3D-printed model. The MTB\/Gravel version, however, was produced as a real metal prototype \u2013 our first step toward a \u201creal feel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This phase was defined by long evenings in CAD, countless cups of coffee, and the feeling that an idea was finally turning into a product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Idea to Tangible Form \u2013 the beginning of real product development. The aws program opened many doors for us. One of them led to one of the most important partners in our journey so far: Aspekt Development. We met the Aspekt team through the funding program, presented our idea of a round, double-sided pedal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13702,"featured_media":186239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourelly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourelly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourelly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourelly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourelly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tourelly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186615,"href":"https:\/\/tourelly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186614\/revisions\/186615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourelly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourelly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourelly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourelly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}