Luisa Grappone hails from the motherland of cycling, pink jerseys and big mountain climbing (aka Italy), but made the move to Sussex to further strengthen the Hunt wheel development team as our full time in-house wheel engineer. 

With an MSc in Aerospace Enigneering Luisa has a wealth of experience in the bicycle industry and materials engineering, with many years misspent sweating over hot CAD drawings, carbon fibre lay-ups and crunching wind tunnel data, hard work but someone's gotta do it and we're delighted Luisa is doing for all HUNT riders from now on. 

Working previously for 3T components then moving to Campagnolo/Fulcrum as a senior R&D engineer, Luisa has extensive knowledge of composite technology and wheel design. Luisa has also worked as a stress analyst for the 787 Boeing program. Luisa's career has included working with Movistar, Garmin Cervelo Test Team, Top Sport Vlaanderen and the BMC team as a liaison engineer for aerodynamic testing in the wind tunnel.

Luisa’s extensive knowledge will be put to the test pushing wheel development even further helping you go further faster and have more fun doing it.