Bike Tow Leash (BTL) Innovation
What problem does the Bike Tow Leash solve?
Most high-energy dog behavior problems stem from a lack of exercise, mental stimulation, and positive recreational activities. Available human time and energy aren’t enough. Normally, long dog walks don’t suffice. The Bike Tow Leash (BTL) solves these problems by providing safe, quick recreational exercise, mental stimulation, and bonding.
The BTL solves the problem of providing enough exercise to satisfy energetic dogs by making riding with dogs safe. It allows dogs to travel the stimulating outdoors at their natural pace, and exert their energy in much less time. Riders and dogs explore together anywhere from off-road trails to urban parks or just the local cafe and post office!
How can this transform the world or our day-to-day lives?
The Bike Tow Leash makes taking the dog out the best part of your and your pup’s day. Additionally, it makes traveling with dogs a breeze and lets you both go adventuring whether it be downtown or up the trail. You will see so much more, with your pup!
Mike Leon Entrepreneur
What is the “Founder story”?
Mike Leon is a professional mechanical engineer from GA TECH. He met his wife Betsy, an electrical engineer, there on her first day on campus. Years later, the Leon family, with two young girls, volunteered to raise service dogs. At the time, Mike was rehabilitating his knee from a car/bike crash after bike riding his two girls, Jess and Sam, to school. The first pup was Tribute. Betsy desired to socialize Tribute at work but needed Tribute to sleep quietly under her 4th-floor desk. The necessity to exercise, Tribute, while rehabilitating his knee made Mike want to combine bike riding with exercising the dog. Mike needed his safety and raising organization approval for riding their dogs. He researched available bike attachments and none were deemed safe enough. Mike was determined to keep raising service dogs and made a prototype arm that prevented tipping, and tangling and allowed dogs to avoid obstacles. It worked! Mike continued to perfect the arm for six and a half years before opening www.BikeTowLeash.com to sell Bike Tow Leashes. Mike proved safety to the raising organizations, trainers, search and rescue, and law enforcement. Bike Tow Leash is the only American Pet Association safety approved biking attachment for bikes, trikes, mobility scooters, and wheelchairs.
How did you come up with the idea?
I researched bike attachments and used my knowledge as a product safety engineer, dog behavior, and physics to make a prototype. Since then we’ve only improved it little by little but the design is mostly unchanged. I keep continuing to look for ways to better the product and make it safer, and more compatible with the latest rides.
Bike Tow Leash (BTL) Reviews
What do customers love most about the product?
The Bike Tow Leash is truly the best present ever for dog people and their fur babies.
What are they saying?
A few of our favorite reviews are below:
“Great design! Fabulous fun!! We actually bought one for one of our bikes and liked it so much that we bought another one a few weeks later for the other bike! My husband and I think this is life-changing for our Border Collie and Sheepadoodle. Right away, we could see that they were safe and enjoying the trot. I watched a dog trainer on tv and noticed he used this product. I watched him train his dog, and it wasn’t complicated- and I found the same for my pups. I could not be happier. Job well done, Bike Tow Leash designer!!”
“Love it: When we got our second pup, a high-energy Aussie, who came to us with no previous training (couldn’t even walk on a leash), we knew we had to do something. We already had a bike tow for our first Aussie, so, of course, we knew to get a 2nd bike and 2nd bike tow for our bundle of enthusiasm. He immediately took to it. All I have to say is, “Wanna go for a ride?” and he is at the door. What a lifesaver for him and for us. Thanks.”
“Dog Coupler: Being able to completely tire out both my dogs while they have a blast is amazing. It works WAY better than I thought was possible before setting the whole thing up and getting moving. It’s pretty amazing.”
“Excellent purchase: I really have enjoyed taking my dogs for runs with me with this attachment. My German Short-hair loves being out on the rides with me and being able to just run alongside me. We have encountered squirrels, other dogs, and cats, and the leash has kept him running and in line with the way my trike is headed. Great purchase. Thanks for the help, Mike.”
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Where can people get this product?
Preferably www.BikeTowLeash.com for best service; there is also a local store finder on our website.
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