About Us
Inspired by the most beautiful form of mobility
Our idea
Uli Press, founder and CEO of solos engineering, the company behind Uplock, is a qualified industrial
engineer and marketing specialist of many years' standing. His love of bikes has characterised him since childhood and was the driving force behind the development of Uplock. Uli wanted a lock system that is always with him, that doesn't get in the way, that provides all the options for locking the bike securely at all times.
Uli put all his engineering expertise into the Uplock lock concept, his ideas about aesthetics, look, feel, shape and materials, his ‘out of the box’ thinking. The result is very different from all the locks on the market - because you can't see it at first: it's hidden in the seat post.
Our path
We deliberately took a lot of time for development: We invested four years in Uplock, right up to series
production. We designed, tested, rejected ideas and created new solutions. Uli Press only wanted to launch the system when it fully met his requirements in terms of aesthetics, lightness and safety.
A whole series of prototypes were built to optimise the function and make the system robust and durable; the lock also had to be really secure. After presenting the pre series models at Eurobike 2023 trade show, Uli then decided to invest almost another year in optimising production and some details - in order to be able to meet his high standards without compromising.