Description
Once we had nailed the material we looked hard at what would be the best shape to fulfill all the key attributes required of this little marvel.
The V-shape we’ve researched and put into manufacture was clearly best for 3 main reasons:
1. The leading edge on a jet wing is swept, so for the same given length you actually have a longer leading edge – on the V2 Sponge™ the leading edge is what does a good proportion of the cleaning so we’ve done the same. 7% more edge for the same height.
2. In testing when we rubbed with a normal square sponge to try and get muck off, we noticed that we always put our fingers in the corners so we could apply the maximum pressure through the sponge onto the muck.
Trouble is with a square sponge you have to use the very edges to make this effective. By making the V2 Sponge™ V-shaped with a point at the bottom and 2 “ears” you’ve got 3 narrow points with which to apply pressure for harder to remove muck (not that anything is truly hard to remove with one of these!) Back to back tests show that we’ve made the cleaning effectiveness at least 40% better by doing this!
3. Size isn’t important – well actually, if you’re making something that needs to fit in a pocket, it is. A square chunk of sponge is just that, a chunk. It’s bulky in the pocket and also hard to get back into the watertight bag, unless you make the bag bigger, which makes the whole pack bigger etc.
Making the V-shaped sponge cures all of this – it’s comfy and compact in the pocket and the point of the V couldn’t make it any easier to get the sponge back into its watertight bag.
gerhard –
brilliant item. Only must have I have encountered. cleans like anything and all that you need is water. Have not seen any scratches on my visors and been using for 4 years. Gave almost every bike buddy one as a gift at some point.