About
Grant Sinclair is a British product developer and founder of grantsinclair.com, best known for creating the IRIS eTrike®—a fully enclosed electric bike first previewed by the BBC in 2017 and tested by astronaut and test pilot Tim Peake in 2020. Now production-ready for manufacture at a dedicated facility in Europe. IRIS eTrike® has been engineered from the ground up with patent pending innovations that have been optimised for ease of assembly and incorporates engineering precision informed by the latest cutting-edge race car engineering and bicycle design. These advancements, the result of rigorous engineering, refining and testing, were enhanced by listening to direct feedback and incorporating feature requests from early adopters. IRIS eTrike® now features ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems)—a capability rarely seen in the electric bike space—delivering enhanced safety and situational awareness. It also boasts an innovative body-integrated HVAC (Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning) system, providing anti-pollution filtration as well as active cooling and heating for demisting and rider comfort. A dedicated 150 sq/m IRIS eTrike® Experience Centre has been designed for Norway and is being prepared for launch, alongside a 125 sq/m warehouse and service facility. With Norway leading Europe in eVehicle sales (and heavily taxing four wheel vehicles), it’s the ideal location for the first physical showroom, ahead of opening further IRIS eTrike® Experience Centres in other territories. Meanwhile, the IRIS eTrike® is available directly online and is due to start shipping worldwide.
Largely self-taught in computing and electronics, Grant built his broad expertise through hands-on experience and an insatiable curiosity—fuelled by studying thousands of specialist magazine journals spanning automotive, computing, cycling, design, electronics, Hi-Fi, photography, architecture, fashion and music. By the age of nine, he was already immersed in the tech world, demonstrating the Sinclair ZX81 at a public event and later creating one of the earliest ZX Spectrum games demonstrated to the public outside of Sinclair’s development lab—both the ZX81 and ZX Spectrum were the best selling computers in the world and around this time Grant had the first working prototype of the C5 electric vehicle at his house. Grant grew up in a family of artists and entrepreneurs, where creativity and invention were part of everyday life. He began experimenting with electronics at the age of four, inspired by his serial inventor uncle, Sir Clive Sinclair. While Clive sparked Grant’s early passion for electronics and computing, it was his father, industrial designer Iain Sinclair, who taught him many aspects of product development—styling, engineering, packaging, and rapid problem solving. In the 1990s, Grant joined his father’s product design consultancy, which produced the industrial design (product styling) for over 100 electronic games computers for brands such as Saitek and Kasparov. Grant played a key role in bringing several of his fathers own brand of products to market, including Flashcard, the first ultra-thin torch/flashlight, which sold millions worldwide.
Over the years, Grant has worked at the intersection of technology, media, and consumer products. In 2018, he founded grantsinclair.com to focus on his own innovations in automotive, cycling and tech. In addition to the IRIS eTrike®, Grant has launched GamerCard™—a retail gift card shaped gaming handheld based on the immensely popular Raspberry Pi single board computer and superseding his POCO™ Gaming Handheld Kit (a product that shipped to early adopters and Sinclair fans as a limited edition during lockdown).
Grant's work has been featured by the BBC, Channel 4, in various technology publications and on mainstream media. He has given talks at schools, museums, and tech events, including Mensa’s UK AGM and LOAD ZX, the Sinclair computing museum in Portugal. He also appears in The Rubber Keyed Wonder, a feature-length documentary celebrating the ZX Spectrum’s legacy, which premiered at The BFI IMAX in London, the largest cinema screen in the UK. The film commemorates the 40th anniversary of the ZX Spectrum computer by Gracious Films, the outfit behind the 'Bedrooms to Billions' trilogy documenting the birth of the gaming industry and is now available to watch via Apple TV, Amazon, and Google Play as well as being distributed on Blu-ray and DVD at stores such as HMV.
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