ISO stands for the International Organization for Standardization – it’s a group of committees that put together standards (or tests) for a wide range of activities like making products, offering a service, testing in laboratories, vendors supplying materials, and so forth. Each standard is accepted worldwide by technical experts in their field.

The international standard for bicycles has been designed to ensure that bicycles and bicycle parts are as safe as practically possible.  ISO testing is a process that all Cane Creek products must surpass, and they must also meet our own benchmarks of quality before we bring them to market. Riding a bicycle is inherently dangerous, and rider safety is extremely important to us at Cane Creek.

Our R&D department does most of the ISO testing in our own test lab. The test lab allows us to design and create products that will exceed ISO standards. The lab also enables us to set our own standards of quality.  

We also use independent third party test labs to validate our internal findings and to supplement our own testing abilities.

For example, when developing the Helm fork, we benchmarked some of our competitors that tested above ISO standards. A suspension fork is an important structural part of a mountain bike, so we knew we needed to exceed those higher standards with the Helm.