ThisWay – An All Weather Bicycle
We’ve always wanted a bicycle that we could take out into the rain but the designs that we’d come across all seemed rather clunky and hard to deal with. Designer Torkel Dohmers decided to get into the game when he designed ThisWay, an all weather bicycle. This two wheeled device is seated in a roofed cycling frame that is both transparent and wide enough to protect the rider from the majority of elements that they’d come across. While the design definitely looks fluid there are still understandable concerns that the heightened roof would turn the bike into a nightmare to keep balanced. We’re not completely sold on the design but if ThisWay ever makes it to market then it probably went t
ThisWay – An All Weather Bicycle
Chris Boardman’s Theft Proof Bicycle
Chris Boardman designed the Theft Proof Bicycle likely as a response to all of those broken frames of bicycles that litter urban areas everywhere. The theft proof bicycle is an ultra minimalist unit that looks like something ripped straight out of Minority Report. Chris Boardman is an Olympic cyclist who designed the this bike with a built in solar battery to help riders get up those steep hills. There is also a fingerprint scanning device on the unit that prevents the bike from moving unless it matches that of the owner. For the tech lovers in all of us there is also a small computer built into the handlebars that effectively reads the major fitness related analytics that you’d want. Of all the futuristic bicycle concepts on this list, the Theft Proof Bicycle is most likely to take the longest to actually get to us. Boardman and his group of developers predict that it will take at least two decades before this cycle is ready to hit the marketplace. Until then we’ll just have to get by with our old lumps of metal in the garage.
Chris Boardman’s Theft Proof Bicycle