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Industrial Design Student Work: The ThinBike, an Easy-to-Store Urban Bike
By Antonius Glufke of Hochshule Magdeburg-Stendal
This ThinBike 2.0 is by Antonius Glufke, an Industrial Design student at Germany's Hochschule (University of Applied Sciences) Magdeburg-Stendal.
Glufke has paid extra attention to the bike's offline life, i.e. how it's stored:
"The Thin Bike is a bicycle specifically designed for use in large cities. Its slim design makes it easy to store in a apartment or workplace, taking up minimal space and reducing the risk of theft. Special features include a foldable handlebar and pedals, to minimize the bike's overall volume."
"It´s equipped with a Pinion gearbox and a Gates Carbon Drive system, paired with a motor from MAHLE, allowing it to be used with electric assistance while still enabling gear shifts. Lightskin provides integrated lights. Optional features include a front rack, fenders, and a range extender."
The project was done in partnership with German manufacturer Schindelhauer Bikes.
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Great project! Surprised they didn't make the front basket/platform rotate 90 degrees to make it narrower. Seems to be the widest part of the bike.
Looks really nice! Follows the trend of compact urban bikes with 20" wheels and a small footprint but it looks so much better than a Qio or i:SY. Reminds me of a next generation Cannondale Hooligan :)
Great design. The handlebars are the most cumbersome component. MKS makes both foldable & detachable pedals.
My motocompacto incorporates a stowing seat & handlebar. This design pulls it altogether neatly.
Did they create the "foldable handlebars" with this piece, or what I think would probably just be some kind of pivoting stem? The description and design process images make it sound like more of an afterthought. To me, that's the really impressive part of this build, and the thing I would buy immediately if they figured out a n elegant way to do that. Without that component, it's kinda just the neutrino from VO.
Pedals can vary in width drastically depending on brand, type etc. The comment about the front basket is related - if you look closely from the top view, you can see that the pedals would be in the neighbourhood of max width of the bicycle assembly. The designer seems to have a good handle on this as that basket at the front AND the tilted handlebar controls look to have the same max width as the pedals. Great work. I do agree that the rotating stem needs some kind of registration to lock @ storage position and quickly reset to riding position.
I see no pedals at all- folding or not- in any of the pictures. Those are the parts that would stick out the most, after the bars, probably even more than the front rack/basket.