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Sada Bike Bicicletta Pieghevule by Gianluca Sada
Sada Bike Bicicletta Pieghevule by Gianluca Sada
Sada Bike Bicicletta Pieghevule by Gianluca Sada
Sada Bike Bicicletta Pieghevule by Gianluca Sada
Sada Bike Bicicletta Pieghevule by Gianluca Sada

Oru Veìculi · 2020

Sada Bike Bicicletta Pieghevule

by Gianluca Sada

  • A' Design Award d'Oru 2020 in Veìculi
  • CLIENT: Adler Group
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About Sada Bike Bicicletta Pieghevule

Sada Bike hè una bicicletta pieghevule senza mozzu cù rote di 26 pollici. E rote maiò permettenu una postura di guida cunfurtevule simile à quella di una bicicletta standard. Ogni rota hè tenuta in trè punti: i punti davanti sò fissati in a struttura di u parafangu, mentre chì i punti daretu si trovanu à l'internu di u cerchione. Una catena trasmette u muvimentu à una rota inferiore, chì trasferisce a coppia à u cerchione daretu. U quadru gira intornu à un solu fulcru centrale, cusì tutta a struttura si chjode cù un solu muvimentu in una forma vicina à a dimensione di un ombrellu. A bicicletta piegata pò esse purtata nantu à a spalla o spustata cum'è un carrellu.

About the A' Design Award d'Oru

Sada Bike Bicicletta Pieghevule hè un vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award d'Oru, una ricunniscenza immensamente prestigiosa attribuita à i disegni di prima categuria, maravigliosi è straordinarii. I vincitori d'Oru sò creazioni estremamente innuvatrici, assai visiunarie è lucentemente abbagliante chì riflettenu u geniu, a saviezza è l'abilità di i so disegnatori. Si aspetta chì Sada Bike Bicicletta Pieghevule sia una invenzione assai elogiata, pionera di tendenze è monumentale, chì furnisce un valore senza precedente. Stu disegnu vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award d'Oru hè un prughjettu spettaculare è rispettatu chì benefizia assai è allarga i limiti di l'arte, di a scienza, di u disegnu è di a tecnulugia. Sada Bike Bicicletta Pieghevule crea sentimenti intensi di disideriu, evoca passione, incuraghjisce a creatività è ci affascina.

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Unique Properties
The SadaBike have 5 strategic points:
1) Hubless bike.
This means: Innovative Design and very good ergonomics and comfort.
2) Hubless and foldable bike:
It has a special fulcrum in the center, all the frame folds, into a compact shape, similar to an umbrella.
3) Foldable with a single movement.
4) Portable on Shoulder:
The small size has the advantage of carrying the bike on the shoulder.
5) Portable as a Trolley:
The backpack presents a central hinge that allows the expansion in the trolley mode.
Dimensions & Packaging
Sada Bike measurements:

In «open version» Sada Bike is like a «normal» 26 inch bike: 1640mm; 980mm; 530mm

The dimension of only the frame, is like an umbrella and included rims, overall measurements are: 700mm; 600mm; 280mm
Tags
Hubless, Foldable, Trolley, Umbrella Bike
Production Technology
The parts of this bike are in aluminum alloy (7075 Ergal) made by CNC process. The next prototype and the production will be made in Ergal and carbon fiber.
Design Challenge
The bicycle without spokes was a challenge between innovation and design. The search for the perfect circle and the study of the laws of physics, yet the commitment, perseverance, with a certain amount of obstacles and falls have made it possible to operate the circle without rays, without constraint to the hub .. and again ... the search of technical and industrial partner, led me to finalize an essential design with extreme innovation.
Research
The result of the project is a 26 inch foldable bicycle with a minimum size when folded (the frame dimension is barely the size of an umbrella) for hand-transport.
Sada Bike, despite the sizes of its wheels and the total absence of hubs and spokes, when folded, is the lightest and least cumbersome foldable bike on the market as it can be transported in an elegant trolley. Other foldable bikes have tiny wheels and frame enhancing manageability at the expense of stability and safety.
Inspiration
Demanding mobility-related service has its consequences on society: street congestion of metropolitan hubs is the everyday challenge commuters have to face and it is a source and stress and delays.
«You never change things by fighting against the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.» R.Buckminster Fuller
Promoting and enabling virtuous behaviors for smart mobility, intermodality, sustainability for the environment are the values driving Sada Bike
Project Duration
The main exhibitions are:
SMAU Torino (Torino Italy 05/2014); Napoli Bike Festival (Napoli Italy 09/2014); Forum del Design (Milano Italy 10/2014); TEDx Bologna (Bologna Italy 10/2014); Bike to the future: Design Museum Gent (Belgium 10/2016), Bloomfield Science Museum (Jerusalem Israel 05/2017), Universum Bremen (Germany 04/2018), Citta della Scienza (Napoli Italy 4/2019), Science and Technology Museum (Ottawa Canada 04/2020), Franklin Institute (Philadelphia USA 04/2021).
Operation Flow
The frame is composed mainly of 4 parts similar to a scissor front and a rear. Each wheel is supported in 3 points: the front ones are inserted in the fender structure, while the rear ones are allocated inside the rim.
The bending system has a central fulcrum around which the front and rear parts of the structure and allows it to close the whole frame in a very compact way.
The Sada Bike has a change in the lower wheel that transmits the motion, which allows multiplying the speed of 3 times. The chain then transmits the motion to the lower wheel that transfers torque to the rear rim.
Patents
Patented No. PCT EP2011​ 878
Italy EP2509854A1, Europe EP2509854B1, USA US20120319377

1st Classified for: Idea TO; The best innovative thesis 2010
Thesis awarded at 55 Congress of order of Engineers of Italy

Project selected for 200 Young talent of Italy
Event held by the Minister of Youth, Rome 17-20 November 2010
Image Credits
Image Frozen Light studio

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