QUIKDROP
“Shared bike for everyone”
Presentation Outline
For our Presentation we aim at showing off all the innovations made with our Shared Bike System and the way we tackled and held true our design intentions,
This included;
• Designing for Melbourne
• Innovative Docking and Locking mechanism
• Making it possible for companies to advertise with the bicycle share system
• Solving the interesting challenge with incorporating helmets into the Shared Bike System which is essential under Australian Law.
• Accommodating for the wide Socioeconomic target market in Melbourne
• Placement of bike docking stations which connects transport hubs, bike tracks, shopping strips, sport precincts, also incorporating topographical maps of Melbourne as to ensure that not all the docks are at the top of hills.
• Safety and Security of the Bike Share System to resist damage, increase surveillance and the ability to reconnect a lost or stolen bike with the share system
• Have an interactive location system on a mobile application and website where a user can find nearest locations of the bike share systems and see how many stations there are how many bikes. Also the ability to hold a bike for a period of time so the user knows there will be a bike waiting for them when they arrive at the docking station.
To accommodate all these points in our presentation we will attack it by making a story where a few users across the target market; An older generation tourist who is interested in the environment and wants to explore Melbourne, a student who wants to get to his friends house and intends to use the bike share system. Lastly a bruiser who has had a few to many drinks and wants a free ride home and eventually steals a bike.
Hopefully through these three personas we can explore all aspects of our design and all the advantages.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Cad frame, and rack positions
Frame and Rack
Above shows maximum height a person has to lift the front of the bike up to get the stand in position. it is less than 18cm
Front Rack in stand position
Front Rack in docking position
Above shows maximum height a person has to lift the front of the bike up to get the stand in position. it is less than 18cm
Front Rack in stand position
Front Rack in docking position
Front Rack/Dock
As stated in the previous post the front rack allows more control over the bike as it is docked and as it is pulled from the dock.
Rear Rack docking
This is before we changed the rack from the back to the front. We changed the position of the rack to the front because when the user needs to take the bike from the docking station, the user is at the rear of the bike and thus have no control over the direction of the front wheel. So by placing the rack at the front of the bike and thus the locking/docking mechanism they are easily able to back the bike away in a straight line and in control. And also be able to ride the bike almost straight into the dock.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
The Perfect Strap
http://www.corporatetravelsafety.com/catalog/steel-core-straps-wlock-p-289.html
These straps are stronger than the average lock
These straps are stronger than the average lock
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Helmets 3
LAZER!!! Removable fabric inserts 2 be washed. Idea to have a dispensing off the fabric liners, which are low cost and disposable. (Hopefully) ;)
Features :
Rollsys®
Turn me on! Simply control the size and the comfort by turning the wheel on top of the helmet
Washable paddings
Detachable paddings which can be washed for extra hygiene
Rain Protected
Hugger
Special padding to keep chin cool and comfortable
Fabric
Fabric exterior surface
4 Weather
Padding designed/appropriate for each season
link:http://www.lazerhelmets.com/en/catalog/cycling-6/urban-edition-12/product/radical-black-sepia-mat-886
Monday, March 29, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Fixies all the rage
Cyclists fixated with latest trend
STEPHEN CAUCHI
May 19, 2009
Pedal power ... fixie riders say they feel more connected and more grounded by having no gears
IN the 1980s, BMX was the rage. In the 1990s, it was mountain bikes. Now it's "fixies" - fixed-wheel bikes with no gears or free-wheel mechanism. There's no coasting; when the rear wheel turns, so do the pedals.
So what is the appeal of a bike where the rider can never rest? They are hip, for starters. But the sensation of always having to pedal has its fans.
"The fixie riders say they feel more connected and more grounded by having no gears," said Bicycle Victoria's Garry Brennan.
"As in everything, there are fashions in bikes. There's been a mountain bike fashion, there's been a BMX fashion, and currently fixies are a strong trend worldwide, especially among younger riders.
"Fixie people have a feeling of kinship with other fixie riders. It's a tribal, clubby thing."
The trend, said Mr Brennan, appears to have sprung from bicycle couriers, who chose fixies because they were less likely to be stolen, had fewer parts, and were reliable and easy to maintain. Track racing bikes are also fixies.
"The coolest fixie is generally a former track bike," said Mr Brennan. "There are some beautiful old steel track fixies from the 1960s and 1970s around the streets of Melbourne that have been reincarnated as urban street bikes."
In fact, restoring fixies (or "blinging" them) is part of the appeal. "Fixies can be blinged out with bright, shiny clean chains - sometimes the chains can be coloured," said Mr Brennan. "The hubs can be coloured, they can be blinged with special narrow handlebars. They're groomed like precious poodles."
And, striving for a complete connection between pedalling and movement, some owners will even remove the brakes (legal overseas, but not in Australia), and slow down by applying back pressure to the pedals.
"That's a positive for them. It's that feeling of connectiveness. They will tell you that their bike-handling skills have improved because of this level of connectiveness. You don't have the margin of error."
Evan Wilson, of Cyclic Bicycles in Flemington, said new fixies cost anything from $600 to $3500.
"The main market is uni students, the art crew, and people who are training - people who are doing competition. They're a bit of a fashion statement and there's a lot of customising you can do."
Fixies account for 30 to 40per cent of his bike sales, but only 10 to 15per cent of revenue because of their cheapness. But new fixies were not hip.
"There might be a dozen new bikes on the showroom floor to cater for the market. They might make up 5per cent of fixed-gear bikes around town. The rest are recycled bikes, old track bikes, imported track bikes. Guys bring in something, saying strip (the gears) and make it a fixie."
Mr Wilson said fixies had boomed in the past decade, and especially in the past three years. And Melbourne "by a long way" was the fixie capital of Australia.
"It's very much the Melbourne culture. Bicycling in Melbourne is so easy, there's so much of it in Melbourne. "You cycle in Sydney, people want to kill you."
So why are they so popular? "It's enjoyable - you want to go faster, you pedal faster. It's also about not going as fast as you can."
That's a sentiment shared by long-time fixie Damon Roe, 31, of North Carlton. He bought his bike second-hand for $200 about nine years ago and has been upgrading it since. "I have actually replaced every part of it since I got it, with parts more suited to its original vintage."
Mr Roe has a geared bike but prefers the fixie. "There's a lot more feedback between you and what's going on on the ground and the speed you're travelling at, because the pedals are travelling in a fixed relationship.
"There's the physical sensation of riding it, there's the political part of not buying into all the latest, greatest gadgets, and there's the classic style of it.
"Old Italian men would look at my bike in the street and smile, or tell me stories about what they used to ride. You don't get that with a modern-day mountain bike."
Source: theage.com.au
Monday, March 8, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Peak-hour bike ban
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/peak-hour-bike-ban-plan-for-trains-sparks-outcry/story-e6frf7jo-1111115218166
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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