Thursday, February 02, 2006

1st Feb Brainstorming - Early Directions

Methods for Attaching-Detaching
- Cable springs
- Backpacks
- Webbing Straps
- Universal joints
- Ball joints
- Quick release
- Car tow ball
- Side car
- Forks attached to back wheel
- Triangulated struts
- Solid attachment to back of bike – no joint with a free trailor wheel
- Hosepipe/ Plumbing fittings
- Flexible Joint (windsurfer mast joint)
- Attachment points (rear axle, rack mount)
- Front fork with bike wheel detached as the hub.
- Telescopic connections
- Seat clamp
- Head Set

Possible Materials
Rubber, Wire, Rope, Tent materials (rods, elastic), urethane solid rods.

Materials and Technology

- Re-purposing existing objects
- Miscellaneous low value objects with a new purpose
- No Welds
- Other industries (plumbing, marine, auto) components.


PPVW Needs

- Service – Food Hospitality
- Flexible Cargo Carrying (materials and components)
- Mobile Workshop and Maintenance (tools, parts etc)
- Public Communication Capacity

New Ideas/ Opportunities
- Flexible Linkage devices (to trail bikes, trail rigid objects)
- Trailer attachment secondary uses
- Point-to-point use beyond bike

3 Comments:

At 8:52 am, Blogger liam said...

hey hey hey luca, you might want to add these links.
http://www.o2fc.com/

and
http://greenhummerproject.org

cause they are interesting

 
At 4:14 pm, Blogger Luca said...

Andrew - I don't mind leaving word verification off for now and just manually deleting spam comments - if they get out of hand then we'll have to switch it on.

Liam - links added under "art and biking" Cheers mate

 
At 6:00 pm, Blogger liam said...

sweet.. good new stuff ^ too

 

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