[p2p-research] Bike of the future?

[Ryan Lanham]

Bike of the future will pay you back for all of that
pedalling<http://dvice.com/archives/2009/07/bike-of-the-fut-1.php>from
DVICE<https://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fdvice.com%2Frss.xml>by
Michael
Trei
[image: Bike of the future will pay you back for all of that pedalling]

This amazing bike concept is part exercise machine, part electric scooter,
and will even help to pay your fare while providing a seat for the bus ride
home. Designed by Mårten Wållgren, Il Choi, David Seesing, and Miika
Hekkinen, it's the centerpiece of a car free concept for central London
called London Garden, and winner of the Seymour Powell award in a contest
called Future City Mobility.

The bike has solar
panels<http://dvice.com/archives/2007/09/solar-bike-helps-you-pedal-les.php>inside
the hubless wheels, which along with your pedaling power charge a
battery that can drive the bike as an electric
scooter<http://dvice.com/archives/2007/03/genesis-evx7-scooter-is-allele.php>.
The really cool part, is that the designers also envision electric buses
with docks for the folded bikes, that will tap your charged battery to help
run the bus in exchange for bus fare.

The concept goes further, with tree like bus shelters where the bikes can be
stored <http://dvice.com/archives/2006/06/cyclepod-innovative-bike-rack.php>up
in the air, and where the blowing breeze moving the stored bikes
around
will also generate electricity.

This all sounds a bit utopian, and doesn't really take into account people
who aren't able to ride bikes, but 'm sure some parts of the design have
real world potential.

Marten Wallgren<http://martenwallgren.blogspot.com/2009/06/winner-seymourpowell-award-for.html>,
via TreeHugger.com<http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/07/winning-design-concept-connects-folding-scooters-electric-buses-and-bike-trees_.php>

Ryan
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