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Just like Ninja, Eclipse X20 folding bike is fast and light yet stealthy enough to slip into the subway unnoticed. This bike offers super wide 25 to 107” gear range and ultra fast Kinetix Pro wheels, cruise up and down the road just like a katana.

As designers, you would probably notice that folding bike design hasn’t had any significant changes in decades. N-Fold technology incorporated in this bike is small yet crucial change that results in faster and more compact fold. It consists of new frame and handle post geometries that spins the front wheel by 180-degrees before the central fold, providing more compact body by 40mm shorter. Every bicycle that utilizes N-Fold technology can be folded smoothly and easily in less than 10 seconds.

Designer : Tern

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MORI folding bike aims to increase the rate of bike ridership especially in an urban environment for better sustainable future. Based on statistic in America, women comprise only 25% of bicycle riders. Can you see a gender gap here? This is due to the bicycle industry that focuses merely on existing cyclists and ignoring the needs of those non-riders, mostly women. In this case, female users could potentially become an expanding market for future bicycle industry.

Considered female user characteristics, the size of MORI must be small enough for user to carry and storage. Using 3-D printing technology, users can design their personal pattern, color, texture and even structure of battery case. For power system, combining human-powered and electromotor-powered modes together, users can chose different riding gesture and power mode based on their different requirements.

You can easily transform this bike from bicycle, scooter, trolley, to folding mode. MORI folding bike is your perfect daily companion, from going to work, shop, to ride home.

Designer : Janus Yuan

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Folding bike design evolves every single day in order to provide us with best transportation, easier and more efficient in big cities. This concept folding bike is built over an aluminum chassis that folds in the middle. The transmission is integrated in the structure and needs no chain, this way the maintenance is easier. When it folds, the high of the handle is perfect to let the user to pick it and take it easily inside any bus or train.

Designer : KILO Estudio

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The main goal of this “Folding Bike for Couriers” project was to design a useful, capacious, and compact mechanical means of transportation for couriers who work in a printing house. We’re not sure why it’s meant only for couriers of a printing house since it looks really handy for anyone who needs to deliver a package using a bike. Using this bike, you can place leaflets package or other polygraphy production in the plastic box and place it inside this bike’s compartment. For long distance travel where you have to use public transport, simply fold your bike and use it as a trolley. This fold bike features titanium frame while the compartment is made of ABS plastic.

Designer : Anton Kosteckii

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Vladimer Kobakhidze, a 29-year old Georgian car designer has sent us his Audi bike concept, a premium transportation for urban traffic to reduce pollution. Please don’t get confused by the name, it’s not an official concept from Audi, but clearly it was inspired by the famous Audi brand design philosophy.

In this fast growing population, the reloaded urban traffic and the polluted environment needs a sustainable, flexible, safe and comfortable bicycle device. It is a difficult task to find out the real innovation in this, in the bicycle design segment. The goal is pretty straight forward, design a family bicycle for “Audi” based on the general design and philosophy of this German automotive company from rationality, visibility and quality. It has to meet the principle of modern sportiveness for premium consumers.

The “Audi Bike” Design project combines the new family of the bicycles: The “Audi” Sports bike, the Folding bike and the electronic + (HP) humane powered Bike. All of them feature fluent lines, more surface transitions and sporty look with emotional appearance.

Designer : Vladimer Kobakhidze

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SSIKE folding bike is trying to ditch the assumption that an electric bike is expensive. This concept is an easy to handle single person folding bike with affordable price, thus, making it available for anyone. It works with your own balance, you’ll get similar sensation as if you’re skiing, but you would need practice to manage the direction of the rear wheel since both front wheel drives and rear wheel are directional.

The original design of this bike makes it stands out among other electric scooters in the market. Powered by a 250-watt electric motor, this concept bike can reach up to 20kph, while the efficient consumption of 6wh/km allows the e-bike to reach up to 40km. the overall weight of SSIKE folding bike is 12kg, you can easily carry it while in a train, a subway, a bus and easily keep it in your apartment.

Designer : Asen Innovacio

Tuvie has received “SSIKE Folding Bike” project from our ‘Submit A Design‘ feature, where we welcome our readers to submit their design/concept for publication.

eCycle electric bike is a conceptual project aims to design modern e-bike that is lightweight, flexible, easy to build with dynamic frame design. Most our e-bikes today are based on traditional bicycle design converted into electric by adding some extra elements and wires. These are the same 100+ year old design converted to electric which later becomes overpriced bike.

This concept utilizes Hydroformed aluminum frame for the main structure while the battery pack is placed in stylized “fuel tank” inspired by retro motorcycles. Just in case you want to ride this e-bike just like a normal one, you can simply remove the battery, thus eliminating extra battery weight from the bike.

Designer : Milos Jovanovic

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The name MOOBY Bike was born out of the idea of shortening the word mobility. With the increasing in traffic, it would be more comfortable and healthier to ride a bike to reach your destination. MOOBY bike won’t formally revolutionize the category of bikes, but conceptually, considering the vehicle as fashionable object or gadget that reflects the owner’s style or mood, just like clothes. Thank you to the side plates, you can change the look, color, graphics and material quickly to customize the style of your bike!

The frame structure is made of aluminum alloy or composite materials, while the plates are made of fiberglass covered with fabrics or wood, etc. Mechanically the motion is transmitted by a series of gears, connected with a small chain which actuates the orbital wheel. MOOBY Bike was inspired by the single speed and fixed-gear bike, so it doesn’t have brakes for both wheels.

Designer : Madella Simone

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MiniMum bicycle is an innovative city bike by its simplicity using the minimum production effort while on the other hand providing maximum user experience. Its minimal and smart structure bike frame is made out of aluminum tubes, a single front and rear fork and a wire rope. The wire rope supports seatpost by maintaining a flexible tension towards the front of the bike, in a very elegant and light way, giving it a unique touch. Maintenance shouldn’t be an issue, it requires almost no maintenance at all. Enjoying the back pedal break and the fixed gear system with a Kevlar belt instead of a chain.

MiniMum bicycle has been designed for a quick, cheap and easy mass production process. It is very light, thin and simple hence would have a low emission impact.

Designer : Omer Sagiv

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Earning its name from the roman god of the sun, the Apollo E-Bike expresses the identity of the Solsonica brand trough the chromatic composition and the logotype featured on its main frame. The “Italian Flag Badge” reinforces the national origin, assuming the Apollo as an unmistakable Italian Design product. Designed for a daily urban use, Apollo E-Bike introduces an innovative folding system, easily adapting it to any situation where space economy matters.

Equipped with a detachable 260Wh LiFePO4 battery, a 250W In-wheel Motor and a Dynamo (for energy recovery), Apollo E-bike is able to reach a top speed of 25km/h with a maximum range of 60km in full-electric mode. One button click away and its user can choose between two other modes (Hybrid and Pedal) extending the overall range.

Designers : Pedro Almeida and Ricardo Fonseca

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Cannondale CERV bike is anything but ordinary. This concept bike is literally adjusting itself as you ride through different terrains. Forkless, chainless and adjustable, pretty radical concept in a sexy body, thank you to Priority Designs company that has managed to deliver stunning visualization of the advanced concept made by Cannondale.

The adjustable headset of CERV bike moves both fore-and-aft and up-and-down. The essential design lies in achieving those possibilities without altering the seat-to-crank height, thus putting the rider in an optimal position based on the terrain.

This system puts the rider in an optimal position based on the terrain. The headset translates forward and down for a clean, low-drag position when descending. When climbing, it moves up and back, creating a more upright position for maximum leverage on the crank. Doing all this with a traditional fork in place wasn’t going to cut it, so a single-sided swing arm was proposed. Designing a forkless front-end has its own challenges, integrating it into a multi-axis adjustable system is another degree of difficulty altogether.

Designer : Cannondale and Priority Designs

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BlueSkyBike is the result of the collaboration between Richard Heat, an industrial designer, and Blue Sky Design. It’s an electric folding bike concept that aims style conscious urban commuters, it was also inspired by the designer’s own experience from commuting in sydney’s western suburbs to the city every day via train. There are 3 primary objectives for this bike design: practicality, storage capacity and style. Richard has to combine these 3 elements into electric folding bike more successfully than any previous attempts in the past to give electric bicycles a brand new identity. Currently Richard is looking for internship/work opportunities, feel free to contact him here.

Designer : Richard Heath

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On busy city streets, riding a bike seems like a great transportation option to reach our destination faster, however, carrying your bike on a subway can be a problem especially during peak hours. That’s why we love Full Circle, a compact-sized foldable city bike that features large wheels. This bike doesn’t use a chain, it utilizes free wheel gear that directly connects to the pedals, it might look like a fixed gear, but it’s not.

We love the folding mechanism, it allows user to quickly fold and unfold Full Circle bike when needed (including the saddle and the handle bars as well), especially when the user has to quickly jump into a bus.

Designer : Sanghyun Jeong

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Folding Helmet Overade was born out of the collaboration between an engineer Philippe Arrourart and Patrick Jouffret from 360, a design agency based in France. The problem with wearing bicycle helmets is that the helmet becomes cumbersome after use, I don’t want to leave it on the bike because someone might steal it, yet I hate to carry it with me. This innovative folding helmet design is like the answer to my prayers (all cyclists’ prayers) for good looking, stylish and easy to carry helmet.

Folding Helmet Overade can easily be stored in your backpack without having to take much space due to its compact size when folded. It provides you not only a good protection just like any standard bicycle helmet but also offers convenient carrying size.

Designer : Agency360

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