bike 2.0

Bike 2.0 is a contemporary remake of the best ever personal transportation, the bicycle. It gives you uncomplicated great technology at your fingertips (toe-tips). Whether you use it as a substitute for a normal bike, without battery, but with the chain-less transmission, or as a substitute for a far more polluting vehicle, with the supportive battery, it will bring you around in a subtle yet cool manner. The design is meant to be contemporary in aesthetics and ethics, a symbiosis of form and technology, modern and historical, Bike 2.0 will use standard wheel and forks, because it just makes sense, but this also gives you the possibility to personalize your Bike 2.0. The user interface is two turning rings, one for gearing and one for energy supply, the latter being temporary without the battery and constant with it, made possible by the always present supercapacitor.

The idea for the bike was born in 2009 by a mixed group of multidisiplinary product developers from Inoda Sveje as coordinators/designers and IPU Product development as partner in concept/technology, we all had a will to implement technology in common objects that has so far been neglected.
We held several meatings to figure out how best to make a change, and how best to make our change noticeable.
This led to the idea of a contemporary bike and a competition as lounchpad. Where we would seek to use technology that we where all ready working with as consultants in product development or technologies we believe to finalise it in a 2-3 year time frame.

The reason to make a bike with electrical transmission but not necessary with a battery (it is an option) is to give the consumer the possibility to go “100 % clean”, of course you would have to be Cancellara to create 500 Watt, but what you all ready do on a ordinary bike will be okay two.

The people involved in the process:
Inoda Sveje [Coordination, Concept, Design] : Kyoko Inoda, Nils Sveje, Gustavo Messias, Peter Anderson.
IPU [technical advisors and feasibility catalysts] : Jesper Windum.
Maiero Ivano SNC [Specialist Modelmaker] : Sandro Maiero

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Dubbed as Bike 2.0, the next generation bicycle features a stepless gearbox, a generator and wires that replace chain. Two wireless control units (rings) on the handle bar make controlling as easy as is possible. An intelligent energy usage mechanism employs an in-wheel 500-watt brushless motor and in-crank generator for all electricity transmission.

bike 20 next generation bicycle 3

The adjustable aluminum frame of the bike caters to different riders’ needs. It is perfectly possible to customize the bike with standard bike parts such as saddle front fork, rims, etc. The stepless automatic gearing allows for a monitored pedaling speed.

Via: Designboom

http://www.greendiary.com/entry/bike-20-concept-runs-away-with-seoul-cycle-design-competition-2010/

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Bicycle designers had a chance to show the world their ideas earlier this year by taking part in the Seoul Cycle Design Competition 2010. The online contest was organized by e-zine Designboom and the Seoul Design Foundation, and received entries from 3,078 designers in 88 countries. The ideas included everything from bikes that doubled as shopping carts, to frames shaped like horses, to handlebar-mounted wind turbines. The grand prize winner, while not as entertainingly-outlandish as some of those concepts, was nonetheless pretty far removed from your garden-variety Schwinn. It’s called, simply enough, Bike 2.0.

Milan-based Danish designer Nils Sveje describes Bike 2.0 as the next generation bicycle... hence the name. At first glance, it looks pretty ordinary. Its very Spartan appearance doesn’t exactly turn heads, and in fact it's the lack of external features that gives away the fact that this is no ordinary bike.

Instead of a chain, the bike has a pedal-powered internal generator that’s wired directly to the rear hub motor. Instead of derailleurs, it has a stepless gearbox. Instead of brake levers and discs, it has a regenerative coaster brake. And, instead of shifters, it has two wireless rings on the handlebar.

Regular propulsion is achieved via the bottom bracket-mounted generator, that creates power which is sent back to the 500 W brushless motor. Using the “superconductor” (which one would assume is a capacitor), however, the rider can get power boosts when needed. An Intelligent Cadence Leveling feature keeps the rider pedaling at the same speed, via a continuously-variable transmission. The rider initially sets their desired cadence using one of the handlebar control rings.

Riders wanting more oomph – or less work – could install the seatpost battery, which directly powers the motor. The second control ring determines how much the rider uses or charges the battery.

The hydro-shaped aluminum frame has built-in lighting, and can be adjusted to fit different sizes of riders.

There’s no word on whether or not you will ever be able to buy your own Bike 2.0, but given how competitions like this are all about brainstorming and inspiring, you may at least see some of its features finding their way onto other bikes. In the meantime, check out some of the other Seoul Cycle Design Competition 2010 finalists at Designboom.
http://www.gizmag.com/bike-20-wins-seoul-cycle-design-competition/17019/


Se more pictures of the process here.
http://www.inodasveje.com/uncategorized/the-making-of-bike-2-0/


In colaboration with Technical advisors and feasibility catalysts: IPU Product Development (http://www.ipu.dk), Specialist modelmaker: Maiero Ivano SNC (http://www.maiero.com)
Award: The Grand Price in Seoul Cycle Design Competition 2010


Inoda+Sveje Design Studio
Inoda + Sveje is a design duo comprising Kyoko Inoda, born in Osaka in 1971, and Nils Sveje, born in Denmark in 1969. Inoda+Sveje was found in Copenhagen in 2000. They moved their base of operations to Milan in 2003. In addition to furniture and other product design, Inoda + Sveje is involved in other fields such as medical devices and speakers.
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http://www.inodasveje.com/products/electronics/bike-2-0/