Bendy bike inventor scores design prize win
The cycle that can be wrapped round a lamppost - intentionally
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Now this is a great idea: a bike with a bendy frame that allows it to be literally wrapped around a lamppost and locked up.
The flexible frame was developed by DeMontfort University, Leicester final-year BSc Product Design student Kevin Scott and won him a runner's up prize in the recent Business Design Centre (BDC) New Designer of the Year competition.
Scott's design essentially replaces two parts of a bike's frame with a segmented tube and, within, a cable. Tighten the cable and the segments snap into place with sufficient rigidity to allow you to ride the bike safely.
Loosen the cable - there a ratchet just below the saddle - and the frame can now bend through 180°.
You can lock a regular bike to lamppost of course, by Scott's design takes up considerably less room.
Scott's prize win netted him £500. "I intend to use the prize money to outsource production of some of the key components to allow for full testing," he said. ®
COMMENTS
Solution looking for a problem?
Most official cycle parking areas provide a cycle rack thus negating the need for any bendy technology. The majority of cycles fastened to lamp posts are probably done so without permission - and a single bendy bike per lamppost that would normally hold 2-3 bikes is a poor use of limited resources!
One problem
If you fold the bike and lock the 2 wheels together..
You can steal both wheels by unbolting them, which as a bonus now leaves the rest of the bike free and unchained (the chain is still linking the 2 wheels together)
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