Comments on: ThisWay by Torkel Dohmers

By: peter siksma

peter siksma — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:22:14 +0000

Great design!

You should ‘impose’ your ideas to these guys: they seem to be stuck..

http://www.drymer.nl

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:07:34 +0000

At home, I live in a hilly city. How would this bike go up hills?

To be honest even in tropical South Yorkshire it’s only wet enough to warrant this once every two weeks. And then you might as well just get a good jacket and some ‘fenders’ as my American friends call them. (We call them mud-guards.)

It must be difficult to redesign something like the bike because the original is so bloody good at what it does.

I’m in Beijing at the moment, and a lot of people drive electric bikes around. That seems like a good idea for mass transportation to me, and you get a lot of professional/wealthy types who wouldn’t dream of powering their own transport deigning to use one. But the thing is: they all look awful. So this could be a fruitful subject for designers. Just like electric cars, we need amazing designs, or no-one’s going to want to use them.

By: britta

britta — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:59:44 +0000

It looks nice and Im sure it’s comfy but a disadvantage is the low position on the road, not jut because of spashing water but also for the lack of overview and sense of control on the street.

By: Rozo

Rozo — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:22:20 +0000

This looks expensive to make
I dont think it is easy to ride
high center of gravity
heavy = high load + difficult to brake (STOP)
difficult position to pedal
just two speeds IS NOT ENOUGH
how do you park it?
the weather protector only covers 10%
IT DOES LOOK LIKE IT HAD ELECTRICAL POWER
counterproductive work

By: Mads

Mads — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:06:32 +0000

Beautiful looking, but I’m not sure about the practicality. Storing it at home would be bad enough, but where are you supposed to put it once you ride into the City for work? It’s too big to lock up at normal bike racks, and is possibly too long to even fit comfortably in motorcycle parking spots.

By: deuxneuve

deuxneuve — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:07:59 +0000

Enfin un vélo couvert qui tient la route !

By: eduardo

eduardo — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:41:25 +0000

very original, cool project

By: Dutch Design

Dutch Design — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:19:23 +0000

Is it a prototype only, or can it be ordered somewhere?

By: Kbikski

Kbikski — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:43:40 +0000

Beautiful design. Some practical concerns have been raised, but most of these can be addressed by further design refinements. My question: How does one adjust the seat-to-pedal distance? It looks like very little adjustment is possible, so perhaps the frame will have to be produced in many different sizes (additional drawback, as it makes it difficult to share a bike among various riders with differing leg lengths, as we do with cars…). Despite all this, as soon as I shared this photo with one of our local cyclist email lists, I had several riders wanting to buy one in my bike store! The design is beautiful, and if the bugs are worked out, I think it can attract many riders, both cyclists and car drivers. And if not, at least it has furthered the conversation and others can learn from this design.

By: amsam

amsam — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:15:29 +0000

A beautiful object and the designer is very talented. But bicycles are highly practical. It sucks that they should be so hard to reinvent, but they are. My big issue with it is that recumbents put the driver too low to ride safely in city traffic. Again, beautiful work in the abstract though.