During an outing in all-terrain wheelchairs of the time, a team from the Annécien Handisport Club noted: " The pleasure would really be total if we could take the chairlift like seated skiing.
The idea was born!
Jean-Luc Fumex, a member of the team, approached Jean-Pierre Lacombe, a specialist in the field of cycling.
A file was submitted to a professor at Polytech Savoie. The latter had the concept studied by two groups of students in their final mechanical engineering project. Among them was Benoit Sublet, who competes in downhill mountain biking and is now in charge of the engineering department and an associate at Mont Blanc Mobility.