This is one of my students projects which we are currently marking and having heavy debates about.
Its looks are 'wowwing' my colleagues into giving it a very good mark and I'm being the spoil sport because having seen alot of bike designs from the last 100 plus years, I don't think it is that 'wow'.
I think the student made the mistake of pushing the frame aesthetics and not the flat pack delivery, self assembly part of his brief.
I was just wondering what people thought of it and if they had seen [specific] similiar designs which I could cite.
Cheers for any feedback, Sean
PS. Please go to the UK New Designers Exhibition web site and vote for the Moulton as a more significant iconic design than the iPod - http://www.newdesigners.com/
This is one of my students projects which we are currently marking and having heavy debates about.
Its looks are 'wowwing' my colleagues into giving it a very good mark and I'm being the spoil sport because having seen alot of bike designs from the last 100 plus years, I don't think it is that 'wow'.
I think the student made the mistake of pushing the frame aesthetics and not the flat pack delivery, self assembly part of his brief.
I was just wondering what people thought of it and if they had seen [specific] similiar designs which I could cite.
Cheers for any feedback, Sean
PS. Please go to the UK New Designers Exhibition web site and vote for the Moulton as a more significant iconic design than the iPod - http://www.newdesigners.com/
Sean Kerslake Design and Tech Loughborough Uni UK
Can you buy them from IKEA? Should appease the SS freaks around here ;-)
hey, anyone who can do this [censored] gets my thumbs up ! 😄
being a commuter my eye is drawn to the arrangement holding the mudguard to the front fork. NOT BAD! altho i think it could be made simpler/easier/cheaper with just a simple split-pin arrangment so that you could retro fit it to 'normal' forks/bikes (better go and trademark that one 😄)
i can only see the advantages of flat-packin a bike if its easily/commonly done all the time, not just for shipping. Why not simplify/slim it furthe and make one of them rear stays removable?
And finally, what is it with industrial designers and bikes???? i think its great but it amazes me how many folios i have seen involving a bike 😄
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hey, anyone who can do this [censored] gets my thumbs up ! 😄
being a commuter my eye is drawn to the arrangement holding the mudguard to the front fork. NOT BAD! altho i think it could be made simpler/easier/cheaper with just a simple split-pin arrangment so that you could retro fit it to 'normal' forks/bikes (better go and trademark that one 😄)
i can only see the advantages of flat-packin a bike if its easily/commonly done all the time, not just for shipping. Why not simplify/slim it furthe and make one of them rear stays removable?
And finally, what is it with industrial designers and bikes???? i think its great but it amazes me how many folios i have seen involving a bike 😄
keep em comin...
F"royalties rock"Dutch
-- flyingdutch
What's the rigidity like? It looks kinda wibbly to me, but then I'm not an engineer.
What's the rigidity like? It looks kinda wibbly to me, but then I'm not an engineer.
Never mind the rigidity, the whole thing is suddenly going to get a lot less 'self-assemblable' when yon student figures out how to add freaking *brakes*.
If one of the criteria for this exercise is that the end result should be usable, then this is an F, however pretty it looks.
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Resound said:
What's the rigidity like? It looks kinda wibbly to me, but then I'm not an engineer.
Never mind the rigidity, the whole thing is suddenly going to get a lot less 'self-assemblable' when yon student figures out how to add freaking *brakes*.
If one of the criteria for this exercise is that the end result should be usable, then this is an F, however pretty it looks.
Naah, it's a fixie, he's hardcore, right? Besides, how fast can you go pushing all of 60 gear inches? Especially when the BB deflects ½" to either side under load.
