Bike inflation technologies are heavily protected with the space being riddled with patents. This makes the market really difficult to enter and requires lots of technical work and research to ensure patents are not violated. A great deal of front end research was done to figure a uniquely novel approach to solve for a universal CO2 inflator design that could accept all 3 types of CO2 cartridges. At the time of release, this was the only competitor of Genuine Innovations to do so. Ergonomic mock-ups were used to develop the unique trigger design to reduce wrist strain and make it easy to deploy with cycling gloves on.