Oh no, terrible news. I met with Frank in Dec 2016 as he embarked cross-country from Texas to Disney. He was incredibly enthusiastic about having left his job and working on Morf. Life is short, life is precious.

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Unfortunately, true. Bike accident, though I don't have details. Very sad.

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Jim Manton / ERO Sports

Truly one of the best guys I knew in the sport who very much understood the importance of family. I can’t imagine what they are going through right now.

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Adam Feigh
Pianko Law, Speed Hound, Castelli, Sailfish, Base
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Damn... Seemed like a cool dude. A real innovator and super nice every time I conversed with him over email. Terrible news.

Oh my gosh I can't believe I'm reading this. I met Frank around the same time as Thomas and had been in communication with him every other week or so for the past couple of years as he developed his bars and his brand. In that time I got to know him and befriended him to a degree. He was a father, a husband, and led a large engineering team at an oilfield services firm. He was a very enthusiastic triathlete and he had so much planned for the MORF brand and cycling in general. My condolences to his family.

I never met him, but his handlebar design was a clever, impressive, wild, and category-disrupting aerobar solution. It is very sad to hear of this big loss to our community and to his family.

I hope his aerobar and his ideas live on ...

Greg @ dsw

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Sadly, I have learned that Frank has in fact passed away as was seen on FB the other morning. I still do not know any details other than a cycling accident is what I hear.

I live in Houston, and met with Frank in a parking garage to test ride an early prototype MORF bar. It took me just a minute to get used to, and then I loved it. Frank was very nice, and super-proud of his creation. I hope that his partner will continue moving forward with the MORF bar.

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Team Zoot-Texas, and Pickle Juice

Hello Taugen, GreenPlease, and All,

Any further word on Frank's cause of death?

From the website:

It is with great sadness we report the death of MORF Tech founder Frank Springett.

While we cope with our loss, sales and distribution of MORF Technologies Trifold Bar will be temporarily suspended as we restructure our management. We will respond to e-mails and address customer inquiries during this transition. We appreciate and thank you for your patience in this very difficult time.

Please check back to this website for updates.

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Cheers, Neal

+1 mph Faster

Hi Neal,

I live in Houston, where Frank lived, and I have not heard much of anything other than it was a cycling accident with a school bus (might have been a city transit bus, but I seem to recall reading it was a school bus). I can not confirm this with 100% certainty, as it is what I recall reading in a very short local paper article and obit posting.

Frank was a true engineer and talent to development. He will be missed.

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Team Zoot-Texas, and Pickle Juice

frank ran into a parked school bus. as well as i could tell - and i interviewed a number of people - it was simply the case of frank riding his bike the way i too often ride my bike: like i open water swim. it was very early morning, but not where the bus normally is, a known route, a known road, just not typically anything parked there. there were witnesses. not a case of product failure. just, looking down and running into an object in front. i have a titanium plate holding my collarbone together from the same crash, just, i was lucky.

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Dan Empfield
aka Slowman

Hello Slowman and All,

Slowman writes in part: i have a titanium plate holding my collarbone together from the same crash, just, i was lucky.

Makes me wonder about the frequency of this type of crash.

A friend of mine was lucky ..... he rode right into the back of a parked city bus in that Northbound stretch of PCH just before the power plant in Carlsbad.

He fell over ... but was lucky and only got a ding in his front wheel and some bruises.

He said he was in the rhythm and riding well ..... but could not remember if he had his head down and did not see the the bus to react ....... or just 'spaced' and saw the bus but did not process the information.

A prism lens that allows a cyclist to see forward while riding with head down could be valuable.

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Cheers, Neal

+1 mph Faster

Ok,

Maybe I'm wrong. you're post seams a little off side given the subject matter.

I'm sure you didn't intend it that way, but that is how I perceive it.

Maurice

Hello mauricemaher and All,

I take you point .... I thought twice before posting ....

On the other hand I would be remiss if I did not mention a possible solution and someone else suffered the same fate.

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway.

You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't." Eleanor Roosevelt

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Cheers, Neal

+1 mph Faster

This sucks. He was a great person, father and husband. My sympathies go out to his wife and daughters.

Jocelyn Mccauley gave quite an emotional speech dedicating her win at IMNZ on Saturday to Frank.

Do you know where the school bus was parked/where Frank was riding? In a bike lane? On a shoulder used as a bike lane? In a vehicle travel lane?

What a terrible tragedy.

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Two wheels good. Four wheels bad.

i don't know.

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Dan Empfield
aka Slowman

I was checking out recent winner, Jocelyn McCauley's Instagram and found out about him passing.
So sad and RIP.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bug9GagDEoY/