Comments on: Intera, the ideal inter-city and intra-city combination http://bicycledesign.net/2009/01/intera-the-ideal-inter-city-and-intra-city-combination/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=intera-the-ideal-inter-city-and-intra-city-combination The blog about industrial design in the bike industry Sat, 25 May 2013 22:49:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Anonymous http://bicycledesign.net/2009/01/intera-the-ideal-inter-city-and-intra-city-combination/comment-page-1/#comment-2829 Anonymous Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:28:00 +0000 http://bicycledesign.net/2009/01/intera-the-ideal-inter-city-and-intra-city-combination/#comment-2829 I would like to see the chain path, looks like you would need a number of idlers to route the chain under the see in recumbent mode.

]]> By: pieter http://bicycledesign.net/2009/01/intera-the-ideal-inter-city-and-intra-city-combination/comment-page-1/#comment-2809 pieter Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:57:00 +0000 http://bicycledesign.net/2009/01/intera-the-ideal-inter-city-and-intra-city-combination/#comment-2809 i forgot the url of our website: http://www.concrete.be, sroll right to ‘other projects’: intera is the first one in that list.

]]> By: pieter http://bicycledesign.net/2009/01/intera-the-ideal-inter-city-and-intra-city-combination/comment-page-1/#comment-2808 pieter Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:02:00 +0000 http://bicycledesign.net/2009/01/intera-the-ideal-inter-city-and-intra-city-combination/#comment-2808 Thanks James for posting our design, and all of you for the kind remarks.
I designed the bike together with my business partner Alexander Crolla a few years ago. On the website of our design office you can find a few pictures of the prototype, and a few movies about how to convert the bike.
We talked with a lot of belgian and dutch bike companies about production, R&D was mostly interested but marketing always said that they don't want to do anything with recumbent bikes (because they keep saying how dangerous they are).
And the few recumbent companies are just to small…
We would still like to get this in production… who knows …

We have a few ideas about the problems pointed out (shape of seat, changing length), but we haven't implemented them yet.

]]> By: M Jensen http://bicycledesign.net/2009/01/intera-the-ideal-inter-city-and-intra-city-combination/comment-page-1/#comment-2781 M Jensen Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:44:00 +0000 http://bicycledesign.net/2009/01/intera-the-ideal-inter-city-and-intra-city-combination/#comment-2781 I did a little research and unlike the vaporware winner, this entry has a working prototype. Was that not convincing enough?

]]> By: Laptop Parts http://bicycledesign.net/2009/01/intera-the-ideal-inter-city-and-intra-city-combination/comment-page-1/#comment-2755 Laptop Parts Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:16:00 +0000 http://bicycledesign.net/2009/01/intera-the-ideal-inter-city-and-intra-city-combination/#comment-2755 Great Review! Well written and quite descriptive as well.. If any item or topic comes out then you should be the one releasing it to the public and make it known! The way you describe it is very intriguing and feels like candy to my ears, if that really makes any sense :) but you catch my drift.. In one of my classes, we were given a paper with instructions of how to build a swan made of aluminum foil and we had to explain to our group verbally how to construct the swan.. It was difficult! But, manageable and we came second in place, but it was tasky :) Nevertheless if you post anything else up I will most definitely check it out! Great review!

]]> By: Massimiliano Di Luca http://bicycledesign.net/2009/01/intera-the-ideal-inter-city-and-intra-city-combination/comment-page-1/#comment-2738 Massimiliano Di Luca Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:53:00 +0000 http://bicycledesign.net/2009/01/intera-the-ideal-inter-city-and-intra-city-combination/#comment-2738 a great design, reminds me of similar idea (city vertical wide-open horizontal) vw concept vehicle

other designs somewhat messy

]]> By: Anonymous http://bicycledesign.net/2009/01/intera-the-ideal-inter-city-and-intra-city-combination/comment-page-1/#comment-2737 Anonymous Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:41:00 +0000 http://bicycledesign.net/2009/01/intera-the-ideal-inter-city-and-intra-city-combination/#comment-2737 @ Team 160

So why don’t you? Search through the links Peter Eland left and find one you like.

]]> By: Team 160 http://bicycledesign.net/2009/01/intera-the-ideal-inter-city-and-intra-city-combination/comment-page-1/#comment-2735 Team 160 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:45:00 +0000 http://bicycledesign.net/2009/01/intera-the-ideal-inter-city-and-intra-city-combination/#comment-2735 This is a design I would ride I am currently riding a recumbent as a commuter and do about 15 miles on a bike trail and 7 miles in the city I would buy this in a minute.

]]> By: Anonymous http://bicycledesign.net/2009/01/intera-the-ideal-inter-city-and-intra-city-combination/comment-page-1/#comment-2733 Anonymous Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:37:00 +0000 http://bicycledesign.net/2009/01/intera-the-ideal-inter-city-and-intra-city-combination/#comment-2733 Now this is clever. Very clever. Well done Pieter. It won’t be to everyone’s taste but it’s a well thought through design. This is the kind of thought process that will take cycling forward.

]]> By: Anonymous http://bicycledesign.net/2009/01/intera-the-ideal-inter-city-and-intra-city-combination/comment-page-1/#comment-2728 Anonymous Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:39:00 +0000 http://bicycledesign.net/2009/01/intera-the-ideal-inter-city-and-intra-city-combination/#comment-2728 James, you did not lobby hard enough for this one.

It’s not fully sorted, but no worse than the finalists. Best so far.

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