Since first creating his brace, Wheeler’s design has received global attention.<\/p>\n
“It became really super apparent early on that this stuff doesn’t exist. Almost instantly I’d got people reaching out going ‘I want what you’ve got’,” he said.<\/p>\n
“So that’s kind of what I’ve been trying to aim to do. Just get people riding on adaptive set-ups all around the world.”<\/p>\n
One of those is former Wales Para-athlete Morgan Jones.<\/p>\n
After finishing fourth in the T47 100m track sprint at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on Australia’s Gold Coast, Jones discovered mountain biking during the Covid pandemic. <\/p>\n
Jones said: “I was getting into riding myself and starting to look for advice or support on how to get the most out of riding with one arm. This has transformed my riding.”<\/p>\n
Jones uses a one of a kind hand, designed by Wheeler: “This integrates into my existing prosthetic and then gives me control on the [handle] bar that I didn’t have before. <\/p>\n
“I currently have the title of top tester, which means I’m the most frequent crasher!”<\/p>\n
Jones said the technology has transformed the way he rides.<\/p>\n
“I feel so much more confident with it, able to keep up with my mates in a way that I never have before,” he added.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile for Wheeler, 15 years on from the crash that changed his life, things are better than ever.<\/p>\n
He said: “I still have to pinch myself. I can do stuff now I never thought would be possible.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since first creating his brace, Wheeler’s design has received global attention. “It became really super apparent early on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-638208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}