About Me

I’m Jason, the rider, designer, and one‑man engine behind VeloLayers — a small workshop in Hong Kong obsessed with solving the real problems of endurance cycling. For most people, a long ride is a weekend loop. For me, “long” starts at 300 km. I’ve lined up for Paris‑Brest‑Paris in France, London‑Edinburgh‑London in the UK, and countless BRM brevets across Asia, riding through nights, storms, jet lag, and the kind of fatigue that makes even simple tasks feel impossible. Out there, hundreds of kilometres from the start, you quickly learn which pieces of gear you can trust and which ones quietly fail when you need them most. A loose mount that rattles for hours, a bag that lets in rain at 3 am, a small adapter that’s impossible to buy locally — these aren’t just minor annoyances; they’re the little cracks that make big goals feel fragile. That frustration is where VeloLayers began. I kept a mental list of everything that annoyed me on rides, then started building my own solutions at home with a 3D printer on my desk.

I’m also the creator of the YouTube channel “Jason the Cyclist,” where I document my preparation, rides, and gear experiments in both Cantonese and English. The channel is my open lab notebook. When you watch a video of me grinding through a windy night on a 600 km brevet or riding along the coastal roads of Shenzhen, you’re not just seeing a highlight reel; you’re seeing the exact conditions that inspire and test every VeloLayers product. If you spot a mount, lid, or adapter in those videos, chances are it started as a sketch on my screen, became a pile of failed prototypes on my workbench, and eventually evolved into the version I trusted enough to bring to an event. The comments and questions from other riders on YouTube constantly push me to refine designs, add features, and think about how products will be used by cyclists with different bikes, setups, and goals. Your real‑world problems become my next round of experiments.

Because I design specifically for 3D printing, I don’t treat it like a shortcut or a toy; I treat it like a manufacturing method with its own strengths and rules. Every part is oriented so that the print layers run in the direction of the forces it will face on the road, not against them. Wall thickness, fillets, and mounting points are chosen to survive thousands of kilometres of vibration, not just look sleek in a product photo. When I designed my AeroTop lid for the Route Werks handlebar bag, for example, I rebuilt the entire lid around the pain points from actual rides: sealing the top surface to stop water pooling in the rain, adding a standard bolt pattern so any common GPS mount can be installed, and shaping a grab handle that doubles as a comfortable rest bar for tired hands. That’s how all VeloLayers products come to life — feeling a problem on the bike, prototyping a fix, then riding it until it either disappears from my mind (because it works) or breaks so I can improve it. Every order is printed on demand, either by me in Hong Kong or by a trusted partner closer to you, which means each item you receive carries the latest iteration of what I’ve learned on the road. VeloLayers exists for riders who don’t just want gear that looks fast — they want gear they’ll still trust at kilometre 900, in the dark, when there’s no Plan B.