Full Circle
Minimizing bicycles is one of my favourite thought experiments, so imagine my delight when I just ran into this prototype for a foldable city bike: Full Circle.
It was Korean designers Sang-hyun Jeong and Jun-tae Park’s submission for the Seoul Cycle Design Competition 2010.
The design is truly minimalist: symmetrical, built from two circles, two vertical lines and one horizontal.
The simplistic exterior contains all necessary technical stuff to make it a functional bicycle, and on top of that highly foldable. The design shows so many interesting solutions and ideas; look at the pedals for instance. Quite the engineering feat!
(Also very beautiful are submissions Bike 2.0 and Neo Essence. Yummie yummie ;-)
- 08.11.2010 .
- Maarten P. Kappert .
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- Industrial design
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- Bicycle
- Designer:
- Sang-hyun Jeong + Jun-tae Park
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A very clever design. I find the Bike 2.0 much more visually appealing. Love the white.
It feels so hightech, where do you insert the batteries? haha
Nah, I’ll stick to my Bianchi Pista Via Condotti for simple biking. Tho I would see a use for this bike at large warehouse where you got long halls and long corridors.