About the founder
James
Vickers.
Co-founder of RGT Cycling. Now building Aster, live tracking for the races that never had it.
The story so far
From virtual roads to real ones.
James co-founded RGT Cycling, the virtual cycling platform, and built it into a product riders around the world trained and raced on. In 2022 RGT was acquired by Wahoo.
Now he's building Aster at Manual Focus Ltd in the UK. Any ride or run, live on the map. Aster makes any ride or run watchable live.
Why Aster
Tracking shouldn't be a luxury.
Live tracking has belonged to the events that can carry a satellite tracker for every rider, shipped out, strapped on, recovered, replaced. A handful of marquee races can. The regional race, the club run and the long training day never could.
“The phone in every jersey pocket and running vest is already the tracker.”
That conviction is the whole company. Aster switches on the phones athletes already carry, with nothing to ship, recover or replace, at any budget and any field size. Anyone watching opens one link in any browser with no sign-up, and sees every athlete on one map with live gaps and ETAs.
Writing about Aster?
The press release, fast facts, and the brand kit are all on the press page, or email the founder's press line directly.