Comments on: Vote for the winner of the ISUDA bike share design competition

By: ducasse

ducasse — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:09:18 +0000

By: s.deiveegan

s.deiveegan — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:53:09 +0000

I like the concept of new type of wheel ( which we understand only a circular object) with further scope of folding of the bike and replacement of the unit of the tier which got punctured which mitigate the labour.

By: James Thomas

James Thomas — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:56:00 +0000

Hi Vincent, we discussed sharing the jury comments in a post…but only after the reader voting ended. It will be a little bit longer, but I can say that your concept was one that I personally liked a lot.

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:26:55 +0000

I vote for the #5 (Luna) because i find it beautiful, simple and functional.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:17:39 +0000

James, I think that this would be extremely interesting for the participants to get a kind of feedback from the jury members Francis Chu, Mark Sanders, Yap Fook Fah, and (of course) yourself. What is your opinion? Maybe you have already planned something in this direction?

By: up up and away

up up and away — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:42:35 +0000

These are all hilarious; you must have had some fun reviewing these ‘concepts’ eh James? The balloon concept must have been conceived under the influence of LSD and I think you’d need to be a circus performer to ride some of the other contraptions. Oh well, back to the drawing board.

By: Marta K.

Marta K. — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 12:55:30 +0000

voting is not working.. –> failed to verify referrer..

By: Philippe de Bersuder

Philippe de Bersuder — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:57:43 +0000

… In France we have public bikes t that people can rent in several towns (price in Paris about 1$/hour), that are quite heavy and ugly (because they have to be strong) but it works.
if you’re curious,

http://www.velib.paris.fr/ or http://www.metrovelo.fr/

From what I’ve seen above and my experience in a bike rent shop, foldable bikes are not easily usable and they’ll be destroyed fast. Also you can be sure to get accidents with people if the lock system fails, and removable accessories will be lost fast also

also forget the idea of a slanted platform, that can be sweepy and dangerous because of the proximity of the road and cars (and difficult to reach for old people). Safety first !
so keep it simple , usable, strong (have to carry 2 people or heavy people, shocks, kids “free style” and so on, that means heavy tires) and light, and looks like a traditional bike if you want to reach other people than kids and geeks!
Electric bykes are in expansion here, but still quite expensive and some progress has to be done on batteries duration… that’s mean to have fixed bike station with power to charge the batteries.

but that, interesting challenge !

By: 10. Merlion Bike- Vincent Pommel

10. Merlion Bike- Vincent Pommel — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:07:36 +0000

Hi James, let me give you my feedback on the design brief:
If I summarize: some specifications are common: durable (one of the return of experience of current bike share programs), seat post: adaptable height, basket, element of the city of Singapore,…
But extremely important is the vision of Isuda: they have identify a new function, they want to breakthrough, to go to the next generation of bike share programs: „the bikes need to be redistributed throughout the day. Bikes (…) should be lightweight and easily transportable (possibly by another bike)“. Tell me if I’m wrong, but they are the first to go so far. And a new function means a new design, so the question is actually great.

Moreover, and as you said, „This is a chance to design a bike that is likely to actually be produced“

For this two reasons I’m very enthousiastic: the design has to combine the respect of the design brief, innovation, and realism. (let me this time quote Jonny Moletta: „to innovate you need to be both visionary and practical „). The surprise for me is maybe that some entries didn’t make the choice to get the best of this vision from Isuda.

One more word to Grego, steven fleming (I agree), and Andy (I agree): this is a nice feeling to see that we are on the same wavelength, thank you for that!

Last word to the commentators which are disappointed: guys, you should have a look again to the design brief and the entries: the quality is good, the eleven entries have all some interesting elements, they really have!

By: ISUDA Bike Share Design Competition – vote for your winning design.

ISUDA Bike Share Design Competition – vote for your winning design. — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:43:57 +0000

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