The worlds gone mad!!

Another Inner City Bike

Our project, simplicity in inner city bicycling, was at first glance a fun aesthetic opportunity in new trends, color, and materials. Our target lived / worked in an inner city environment with minimal space. Bicycling at this level can be more about fashion and culture than speed and performance.
After the first few brainstorm sessions we knew there where bigger opportunities. The project ended up rethinking what a “frame” meant, getting ride of basic key components, and creating a new type of compact bicycling. Inspired by the first the "hobby horse" from it's simplicity and secondly the cafe race scene. Each is an exercise in stripping something down to its core.
The final design came down to a frame system and a really difficult rear hub. Everything else is rider preference.

Before all of the bike fanatics get all fired up, we know this bike doesn’t solve everyone’s personal transportation dreams. Performance wise, the bike is on the
slow side, quirky, and fatiguing over longer distances. Consider it a cafe racer with the performance of a beach cruiser. The positives are easy quick turns, huge
power to the rear wheel to go over curbs and other city scape structures, and great start / stopping / sitting situations.

We re-thought everything 2 wheeled with simplicity in mind. This is as stripped as you can get.

Very few parts.
The bike components can vary but overall it would be made up of 29” rims, huge big apple tires, a rear hub (planetary internal freewheeling, unicycle through
axle) and a single front disc brake.-->

More Photos Here

For me I think if its not broke dont try and fix it. This is more like an art project gone wrong than a new concept for city bikes. Look at the first photo the the word clown springs to mind!!

I love this line: Performance wise, the bike is on the slow side, quirky, and fatiguing over longer distances.