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Every time you snap a magnetic buckle on a bike helmet, a school backpack, or a water bottle cage, there's a good chance it's a Fidlock. What started as a teenager's scrapyard fix for a cello case has grown into a company with twelve hundred patents, a hundred and thirty employees, and products moving in the millions — from Nike gear to car interiors.
Joachim Fiedler joined me at Eurobike 2026 to talk about how Fidlock built one of the most quietly ubiquitous ingredient brands around: the patent-everything strategy, splitting the business between industrial components and consumer products like the Twist bottle line, and the deliberate "A surface, B surface" playbook for getting a brand noticed on someone else's product.
It's a conversation about betting everything on one core idea — and never quite letting go of it.
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