PPVW Final Video link
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Pedal Powered Possibility Forum
Friday 17 Feb - Presentation to the stakeholders involved with the project.
PPVW at SLF
EXHIBITION OF PEDAL-POWERED VEHICLES at the SUSTAINABLE LIVING FESTIVAL
The vehicles and accessories designed and prototyped through the Pedal-Powered Vehicle Workshop will be displayed for public comment and discussion, along with examples of work-trikes and bikes by two leading Australian human-powered vehicle developers and manufacturers Greenspeed and Trisled.
WHEN: 10am-5pm both Sat 18th & Sun 19th Feb
WHERE: Federation Square central plaza, Melbourne
finale forum
HERE IS A PEDAL-POWERED POSSIBILITY
A forum presenting pedal-powered vehicles and sustainable transport strategy
A two-part forum, firstly with guest speakers discussing sustainable transport planning in Melbourne and the potential of increasing a work-cycle culture, to be followed by a series of presentations to transportation stakeholders from the Pedal-Powered Vehicle Workshop participants that propose ideas to ‘make pedal-powered work’, including vehicle prototypes.
WHEN: 9.30am-12.30pm Fri 17th Feb
WHERE: RMIT City Campus, Ground Floor, Building 50, 11 Orr St
(behind NW corner of Victoria & Lygons Sts)
GUEST SPEAKERS:
Andrew Korr, Transport Planning Coordinator of City of Melbourne
Cr Jackie M Fristacky, Mayor City of Yarra & Deputy Chair of the Metropolitan Transport Forum
RESPONDENTS:
Ben Goodall - Designer & Director, Trisled Human Powered Vehicles
Rob Moore - Manager Urban Design, City of Melbourne
Darren Andrews - Director - Environmental Services, Green Collect Limited
Paul Simms - Greenspeed Recumbent Trikes & HPVs,
Damon Rao, Planning and Policy, Department of Infrastructure
Andrew Martin – Blackrose Cycles
. . . and more
And even our metal is carted by bike
that is, by Bill on his bike with trolley and 40kg metal in tow.
Folding Trailer
The basic premise for the folding trailer has remained largely unchanged through the development process. An early wooden model was made and this was used as the basis for a lightweight aluminium frame made later. The frame uses stainless steel hinges.
Simon was able to get lightwight Acrylic wheels.
The design also uses an asymetrical mount off the rear wheel.
The original concept was to have a locking mechanism that left the trolley in its chosen shape - Now the shape will be held in place by a basket/tray locked to the top of the frame.
Bike to Load Carrying Trike conversion
This team's goal is to create a trailer that can link to the rear drive wheel of an existing bike turning it into a load carrying trike.
The basic design has remained the same throughout the past week however compromises have been made due to material and tool availability.
Tricky Trike - Recumbent load carrier
The "tricky Trike" team have been rapidly developing a single frame trailer/transport. Initial ideas were using the front end off an existing bike, however, further development led to a redesign with a recumbent configuration. The bike frame is steel with a wooden custom made trailer insert.
The development process included chalk drawings, 3d CAD sketching and Cardboard Mockups.
The team also has their own
dedicated blog here
Shopping Trailer
Through extensive development and drawing James, helped by Matteo, Shreya and Luca, developed a shopping trailer that hitched to the back of the bike when taken to and from the shops.
A choice was made early on to use existing baskets (the plastic ones available instore as well as the wire ones able to be purchased). These baskets went through various configurations before a basic steel tubing frame was made up.
Small One-Wheeled Trailer
Bill has been developing a one wheel trailer and hitch assembly.
The basic concept is based on an asymetrical connection to the rear wheel and the trailer is made from thin bent steel tubing.
Once the basic concept was tested he refined the components - making a new trailer out of a continuous piece of tubing. He is also going to revisit the hitching connection -refining it to make it stronger still and able to wrap around a standard crate.
Ride-On Dinner
6pm Fri 17th Feb
CARLTON GARDENS
starting at north end (corner of Carlton & Canning Sts) . . .
grab your cycle and an appetite for the spice of life to join a cavalcade of cyclists served a 3-course meal, pausing in 3 different locations, over a 3-hour evening inner-city ride . . . meals are limited! . . . the first 50 people to register for the Ride-On-Dinner will receive confirmation to be fed, receive a map, and a cycle-worthy napkin. . . all cyclists welcome to pedal alongside. . .
register by sending an email to rideondinner@gmail.com
the Ride-On-Dinner event is pedalled by artist Mick Douglas and participants of the Pedal-Powered Vehicles Workshop, a 3-week intensive program of events exploring the possibilities of work-cycles, hosted by the Cultural Transports Unit of RMIT
(food on the ride-on-dinner will be a no-meat no-dairy damn fine feast sure to please all!)
Ceri's Contraptions
Ceri (from Rmit Public Art) has been working on a range of pedal powered possibilities often mixing unusual objects with rescued bike components.
These include a scooter driven post office crate & a plastic crate trolley.
Design Development
The last two days over in Collingwood have been dedicated to planning and developing projects over the remaining days.
The plan is to have a range of finished prototypes to exhibit in a fortnight.
New Blog
Hi folks. This is mainly for Sam, Peter and Liam, but everyone else is free to comment and whatnot. We've created a blog for design discussions relating to The Trike. It lives
here.
Luca, it is probably a good idea of yours or Mick's (can't remember) that we keep a "look" for the PPVW blogs, so if you somehow get the template to me I can chuck it in.
Peace out.
- a
Week 2 Day 1
Lots of discussion on where the project is heading over the next two weeks.
Reflection on the Trailer building excercise at the end of last week.
Strengths: - Highly productive
- Efficient (when good task delegation is utilised)
- Sharing of ideas and skillbases'
- Able to work with trial and error
- positive Working and creative environment.
Weaknesses: - Delay in sourcing components
- Lack of communication between different projects and within small groups
- Building before the design has been clarified
- Time Management
- Task Division
- Need for Leaders
- Rushed Schedule
- Lack of Tools/equipment
Our Realistic Goals for the rest of the project - Need for physical outcomes/concepts for the forum, dinner and festival
- Keep it Simple (existing components/mechanisms)
- Aesthetic considerations (clean finished projects)
- The outcomes are to be "locally responsive" for Melbourne
- Introduce new possibilities and gain universal appeal for bicycling
- Recycling possibilities
- Use of Retrofitting
- Possible conceptual outcomes (to persue in the future)
- Alliances (eg with Green Collect)
Chosen Concepts to Persue - Continue to develop the hitching mechanism and trailer
- Develop a food/service vehicle
- Develop a mobile bike maintenance vehicle
Kensington Workshop Experience (videos)
Quicktime Movies:
Video Slideshow of the
development process.
Small Version (2.3mb)Large Version (6.3 mb)The Trailers IN ACTION!
Small Version (2.1mb) Large Version (6.1mb)
Kensington Workshop Experience (photos)
The PPVW team headed across to outer space studios in Kensington to rapidly develop some ideas for
bicycle trailers over two mornings
The design also uses an asymetrical mount off the rear wheel.
The original concept was to have a locking mechanism that left the trolley in its chosen shape - Now the shape will be held in place by a basket/tray locked to the top of the frame.
The development process included chalk drawings, 3d CAD sketching and Cardboard Mockups.
Lots of discussion on where the project is heading over the next two weeks.
Chosen Concepts to Persue
Apart from having a great time some very innovative and creative ideas came about...
