It is your time, your bike, your ride – CONTROL IT TO OWN IT.™
Quick Tune Steering™ improves rider feel, giving more confidence to carry more speed. Confidence is speed. QTS is rider designed. Professionally tested in the Santa Cruz area with great reviews.
Quick Tune Steering™ (QTS) is a 90 second tunable steering design that changes the steering angle. The correct steering angle for a particular trail or riding style improves the rider feel, giving more confidence to shred like never before. Professional rider tested in the Santa Cruz area. One tester stated, THIS WILL CHANGE THE MOUNTAIN BIKE INDUSTRY.
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OUR FOUNDER
Jim is a Georgia native. He graduated from Southern Tech in 1991 acquiring a mechanical engineering degree as well as the EIT. Jim’s professional background involves working as a machinist, R&D, testing and assembly of outboard marine engines, automotive steering gear system and industrial and marine diesel engine. Jim now works at his families Ford automotive dealership. Jim married his wife April in 1997 and they have two children, Lily Grace and Nicholas. Jim has a life long love for any outdoor adventure like hunting, fishing and biking. With a competitive attitude and mechanical mind, Jim evaluates how everything works and what makes a particular product better than others. This process developed into what is now Quick Tune Steering™.
Jim Prater
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF QUICK TUNE STEERING™
Quick Tune Steering is an idea that Jim came up with in 2015. The QTS idea developed when he was reading about new bicycles and their geometry. Jim was always thinking if he were to buy a new bicycle what would he buy and how could he get the feel of XC and stability of enduro. He was not at all pleased with what options were available though the bikes were great. They were half way in or half way out. Why could he not have a real XC feel when riding his local tight snaking technical trails and a fast blaster for the big down hills at the Shenandoah 100 in Virginia. Again it was half way in or out but neither really perfect for the feel or situation. With a lot of manufacturing, testing, developing a wide variety of products and through knowledge in steering, Jim came up with the idea of changeable steering angle. Researching previous attempts in the bicycle industry he did not find a good option. The industry has a couple of products that are very difficult to operate, expensive and very minimal in amount of adjustment. The setup was more technical than a complete bike assembly. A steering design was developing in Jim’s mind. The first idea started out being bulky and adding too much weight. He then took another approach that included incorporating the frame into the steering design. The idea developed very quickly once he figured out that detail. Playing with drawings and cardboard parts he found that there was really very little weight added if any at all. Next, how easy would it be to really change the steering angle? With only minor changes, the design worked very nicely. Quick Tune Steering was born. Reading and researching how to get a patent, a lawyer, and build a real prototype bicycle. In 2018 Jim commissioned world-renowned carbon bicycle builders Calfee’s Designs Inc in California to execute a special build that would show off the great capabilities of QTS. The Calfee built QTS bicycle turned out beautiful and operated even better. Craig Calfee said, “Jim you have hit a home run on the first build with this one”.
